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- By Emily Coady-Stemp
- BBC Information, South East
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An excessive amount of vitamin D can result in calcium increase within the physique, based on the NHS
Surrey’s coroner is looking for change to complement packaging guidelines after an 89-year-old’s deadly vitamin D overdose.
Following the dying of David Mitchener, the coroner has written to the Division of Well being and Social Care and the Meals Requirements Company (FSA).
A report mentioned the 89-year-old had been taking vitamin dietary supplements for not less than the 9 months previous his dying.
Earlier than his dying, a check confirmed his vitamin D ranges at 380, the utmost degree recordable by the laboratory.
An inquest into Mr Mitchener’s dying at East Surrey Hospital in Could 2023 led to December.
It discovered Mr Mitchener died of vitamin D toxicity, hypercalcaemia, and cardiac and kidney failure.
The conclusion of the inquest was dying by misadventure.
‘Very critical dangers’
Jonathan Stevens, assistant coroner in Surrey, raised issues that vitamin dietary supplements can have “doubtlessly very critical dangers and uncomfortable side effects when taken in extra” and that present labelling necessities don’t require them to be written on packaging.
He additionally mentioned the absence of applicable warnings and steering about dosage was a priority.
The FSA and the Division of Well being and Social Care (DHSC) each mentioned they might reply to the coroner on the report, which was additionally despatched to the corporate which offered the dietary supplements.
An FSA spokesperson mentioned coverage duty for meals dietary supplements in England was circuitously throughout the remit of the FSA.
A DHSC spokesperson mentioned: “Our deepest sympathies are with the household and pals of David Mitchener.
“We are going to contemplate the coroner’s findings in full and reply sooner or later.”
NHS steering states that taking too many vitamin D dietary supplements over a protracted time period could cause hypercalcaemia, the place an excessive amount of calcium builds up within the physique.
It mentioned this may injury the kidneys and the guts, and recommends 10 micrograms per day for most individuals.
