[What happens if you deliberately overdose on vitamin D?]

Abstract

Introduction: About 30 % of the Swiss population regularly takes dietary supplements, whereas only 22 % of them have a medical reason to do so. We describe a case of a woman with multiple sclerosis and her partner, who has a rare metabolic disorder. Due to a lack of conventional treatment options perceived by the patient, they started a high-dose vitamin D supplementation. While the man only developed a subclinical vitamin D intoxication, the woman was hospitalized due to a severe vitamin-D-induced hypercalcemia.