Tripledemic: Flu, COVID, and RSV (all fought by Vitamin D) - Oct 2022

A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise - New York Times

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• "R.S.V. causes about 14,000 deaths among adults 65 and older and up to 300 deaths among children under 5 each year."
• "Flu season in the southern hemisphere, typically between May and October, is highly predictive of winters in the northern hemisphere. This year, flu began weeks earlier than usual in Australia and New Zealand, and the number of cases and hospitalizations were markedly higher."
• Tulsa URL
• :Dr. Gordon tracks influenza rates among children in Nicaragua, which has one flu season in June and July, and a larger one in the late fall. "
  • Note: the Middle east also has Flu season in the summer - they avoid the hot sun so much that they have little vitamin D in the summer
  • Pigs used to get the flu only in the winter ( had got Vitamin D in the summer) - Nov 2018

All three viral infections can result in viral pneumonia

• Pneumonia and low vitamin D - many studies
• Pneumonia elderly death 12X more likely when vitamin D less than 12 ng – 2011
• Vitamin D supplementation could prevent and treat influenza, CORONAVIRUS, and pneumonia infections - March 2020
  • One of the co-authors is the founder of Vitamin D Life
• Fewer children died of pneumonia after 100,000 IU Vitamin D injection – RCT March 2021

Vitamin D Life - Overview Influenza and vitamin D contains

Vitamin D fights all phases of Influenza

• FACT: Vitamin D PREVENTS Influenza 7X lower risk
• FACT: Vitamin D SUPRESSES Influenza ( Vitamin D Hammer )
  • Single dose of 50,000 IU of vitamin D stops Influenza symptoms
• FACT: Vitamin D PREVENTS & SUPRESSES Sepsis which is a rare but deadly consequence of Influenza
• FACT: Vitamin D enhances the activity of vaccines.
• FACT: improves Flu vaccine effectiveness and reduces side effects
• FACT: Vitamin D has virtually no side effects
  • but 1 in 300 get people get muscle pain or itching due to lower magnesium levels
• FACT: Vitamin D prevents/suppresses over 120 health problems (left column)
• FACT: Both COVID-19 and Influenza are enveloped viruses
  • Vitamin D can inhibit enveloped virus (e.g. Corona, Herpes, Zoster, Epstein, Hepatitis, RSV) – March 2011
• FACT: Do not take vitamin D if Sarcoidosis, excess Calcium, Chemotherapy
• CONCLUSION To help protect/suppress influenza, take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D once a week
     during the flu season if you are an average weight adult

Also

• Nursing home vaccinated against Influenza, 800 IU of vitamin D daily cut infection rate in half – small RCT Oct 2021
• Influenza infection 5X less likely if got vitamin D – small RCT Feb 2022
• Small amounts of Vitamin D reduce Influenza risk by 22 percent (loading dose is far better) – meta-analysis Jan 2022
• Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015
• 7X less risk of influenza if Vitamin D levels higher than 30 ng – Oct 2017
• Vitamin D Life pages with FLU or INFLUENZA in title (86 as of Oct 2022)

Vitamin D Life – COVID-19 treated by Vitamin D - studies, reports, videos

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Vitamin D meta-analyses of Virus 38 studies

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Vitamin D Life pages with RSV in title (7 as of Nov 2022)

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RSV 11.8 X more likely to be life threatening if low Vitamin D – Feb 2022
RSV Symptoms

RSV and Vitamin D in medical publications

• Modulation of the Immune Response to Respiratory Viruses by Vitamin D - May 2014 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu7064240 FREE PDF
• The interplay between vitamin D and viral infections January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/rmv.2032
• Vitamin D in respiratory viral infections: a key immune modulator? Sep 2021 https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2021.1972407
• Serum Vitamin D Levels and Life-Threatening Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Previously Healthy Infants Sept 2022,
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac033   11.8X more likely if low vitamin D
• Vitamin D Receptor polymorphisms and risk of enveloped virus infection: A meta-analysis - Dec 2018
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2018.08.017 FREE PDF
• Back to basics: review on vitamin D and respiratory viral infections including COVID-19 - Oct 2020
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1811074 FREE PDF
• Comparison of Viral Agents and Vitamin D Levels in Children with Acute Bronchiolitis Infection. March 2019
• Cord blood vitamin D deficiency is associated with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis - June 2011 doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-3054

Note: PDFs of many medical studies before 2020 are available at http://libgen.rs/scimag/

RSV - not just those under age 2, anticipate big outbreak after 2 years of isolation - Oct 29, 2022

R.S.V. Cases Are Rising. Here’s What You Need to Know - New York Times

• "In a normal prepandemic year, 1 to 2 percent of babies younger than 6 months with an R.S.V. infection may need to be hospitalized. And virtually all children have gotten an R.S.V. infection by the time they are 2 years old."
• “Adults still get R.S.V. fairly regularly and they can get reinfected multiple times throughout adulthood,”
• "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 177,000 older adults are hospitalized with R.S.V. each year and 14,000 of them die."
• "Those at highest risk for severe infections include premature infants, babies under 6 months of age, infants and toddlers with chronic lung disease or congenital heart disease, as well as children with weakened immune systems and those who have neuromuscular disorders that make it difficult to clear out mucus."
  • Note: Many of these are associated with low Vitamin D

Note: This page includes new data since the peer-reviewed study that I co-authored in March 2020

Vitamin D supplementation could prevent and treat influenza, CORONAVIRUS, and pneumonia infections - March 2020

See related in Vitamin D Life

• PICU layoffs due to pandemic lulls, but children are now getting 3 years of viral infection all at once – Oct 2022
• Long-COVID is now the biggest COVID concern - many studies
• COVID: more than 33 lineages and vaccines – Nov 2022
• We had an inexpensive life-saving solution both before and during the pandemic (Vitamin D) - Malone May 2022
• Vitamin D Supplementation and COVID-19 Outcomes: Mounting Evidence and Fewer Doubts - Aug 2022

Taking lots of Vitamin D at first signs of COVID should stop COVID in most people

Take lots of Vitamin D at first signs of COVID