When should vitamin D be measured in older people?
Vitamin D is one of the essential vitamins in the human body. It is important for the health of the muscles, bones, nervous system, immune and heart health, and the importance of this vitamin is doubled for the elderly because it prevents them from getting diseases. The lack of this vitamin affects their health. Measurement of vitamin D in the elderly and its normal rate in the blood.
Dr. Samia Ahmed Abdel Rahman, assistant professor of medicine and health of the elderly and age sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, said for the "seventh day" that the vitamin D deficiency should not be measured in all older patients but that is done in those suffering from symptoms or complications of deficiency.
She explained that the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency are: general weakness, fatigue, bone pain, insomnia, depression, frequent colds due to lack of immunity.
On the normal level of vitamin D in the blood, Dr. Samia said that there is no agreement among scientists on the normal level of vitamin D in the blood but most agree that it must not be less than 35 mg / dl for bone health and may be the required level higher for the work of the rest of the body But it is not yet known, adding that the level of 25-hydroxy vitamin D should be measured and not because it is the only non-variable measure that gives a true level of vitamin D in the blood. "