- Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide
- Most asthmatics have low Vitamin D levels
- Adding Vitamin D decreases asthma: proven by many random controlled trials
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- Asthma may be treated by Vitamin D if more than 40 ng for 12 months – Sept 2018
- Asthma in child 2.3 X more likely if both parents asthmatic (unless add Vitamin D) – VDAART Nov 2018
- Adult-onset asthma 2X more likely if low vitamin D and not hyperallergenic – May 2018
- Child Asthma increased 2.1 X by antibiotics, Child milk allergy increased 4.4 X by PPI – April 2018
- Asthmatic children taking Corticosteroids had 2X more vitamin D intake, but lower levels – July 2017
- Vitamin D supplements could halve risk of serious asthma attacks – Cochrane conclusion – Sept 2016
- Traffic pollution increases asthma unless supplement with Vitamin D (mice) June 2018
- Childhood asthma problems eliminated for months by 600,000 IU of Vitamin D injection – June 2017
- Proof that Vitamin D Works 92 health problems prevented/treated as of Nov 2020
- Asthma has been proven to be treated by Vitamin D in at least 4 random controlled trials
- Childhood asthma still reduced 4 months after 800 IU of Vitamin D daily - RCT Feb 2016
- Respiratory Disease exacerbations (Asthma, CF, COPD) may be treated by Vitamin D – July 2019
- Women with asthma 35X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – Oct 2013
- If high vitamin D during pregnancy the child is 5X less likely to get asthma
- Asthma is treated by Vitamin D – now they are trying to understand why – Feb 2015
- Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
- Asthma attacks reduced in half if Vitamin D level higher than 42 nanograms – RCT May 2014 intervention
- Should Vitamin D Supplementation Be a Regular Part of Asthma Care – Oct 2013
- Strong Vitamin D deficiency associations in Asthma patients – Nov 2014
- Increase in vitamin D deficiency may partially explain increases in asthma and allergies – Jan 2015
- Allergies and asthma – overwhelming experimental evidence that vitamin D helps – more studies needed – Dec 2014
- Asthma much worse in city with little vitamin D – March 2014 - less UV and less outdoors ==> less vitamin D
- Why deficiencies in vitamin D and magnesium are linked to asthma Magnesium allows muscles to relax
- Acetaminophen (Tylenol) increases asthma wonder if Tylenol decreased vitamin D,which increases Asthma
- Babies 3.6X more likely to go to hospital for asthma if asthmatic mother had low vitamin D while pregnant – June 2019
- The worse the bronchial asthma, the lower the vitamin D – Jan 2017
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- Search Vitamin D Life for Asthma in title 874 as of Nov 2020
- All items in Breathing and Vitamin D Could not obtain valid DSN connection. items includes Asthma, Pneunomia, RTI, TB, Allergy, COPD
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Meta-Analyses in Vitamin D Life
- Asthmatics less able to breathe if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Nov 2019
- Asthma supplementation by Vitamin D (any amount) reduced attacks by 25 percent – meta-analysis April 2019
- Asthma reduced 60 percent with vitamin D supplementation – meta-analysis 2014, 2015
- Childhood asthma about 1.3 times more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis Aug 2016
Recent studies in Breathing and Intervention categories (give vitamin D and see what happens) in Vitamin D Life:
- Those with Asthma or COPD had half the response to Vitamin D – March 2020
- Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Infants reduced 5.9 X by daily 600 IU of vitamin D (China) - March 2020
- Hay Fever treated by Vitamin D (50,000 IU weekly) – RCT July 2019
- COPD trial to use 80,000 IU of vitamin D weekly – RCT 2021
- Allergic Rhinitis in infants treated by 1,000 IU vitamin D daily – June 2019
- Childhood colds reduced 25 percent by weekly Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2019
- All asthma problems reduced after 1 year of Vitamin D – Nov 2017
- Asthma treated by daily 50,000 IU of Vitamin D – April 2018
- Childhood Respiratory Health hardly improved with 600 IU of vitamin D (need much more) – May 2018
- Allergic rhinitis in children reduced somewhat during pollen season by just 1,000 IU of vitamin D – RCT Jan 2018
- Influenza risk reduced 2X by 2,000 IU of Vitamin D (vs 400), RTI reduced 3X by 400 or more IU – July 2017
- Half the risk of Influenza -A in infants taking 1200 IU of vitamin D for 4 months – RCT Jan 2018
- Risk of infant Asthma cut in half if mother supplemented Vitamin D to get more than 30 ng – RCT Oct 2017
- Childhood asthma problems eliminated for months by 600,000 IU of Vitamin D injection – June 2017
- Reduction of infant asthma may require good vitamin D when lung development starts (4 weeks) – March 2017
- Monthly 100,000 IU of vitamin D decreased respiratory infection but increased falls – Nov 2016
- RTI – Feel much better if increase vitamin D level above 40 ng (4000 IU) – RCT Sept 2015
- Five times less mite allergy when vitamin D added in mid pregnancy and to infant – RCT April 2016
- Childhood asthma still reduced 4 months after 800 IU of Vitamin D daily - RCT Feb 2016
- Asthma exacerbations with colds reduced by 40 percent with vitamin D supplementation – Nov 2015
Breathing and Vitamin D Binding Protein:
- Asthma more closely associated with poor VDBP gene than with poor Vitamin D level – June 2014
- COPD in Asians twice as likely if poor Vitamin D Binding Protein – meta-analysis May 2019
- COPD strongly associated with Vitamin D Binding Protein problems – meta-analysis Aug 2015
- Gene makes COPD 2.6X more likely unless get more vitamin D – meta-analysis Dec 2014
- Vitamin D Binding Protein, And Airflow In COPD - April 2012
- Genetic link found between vitamin D and COPD – June 2010
- How vitamin D helps the lung via vitamin D-binding protein - May 2010
See also on the web
- Asthmatics exhale better if higher level of Vitamin D - 2018
Correlation between the vitamin D levels and asthma attacks in children: Evaluation of the effects of combination therapy of atomization inhalation of budesonide, albuterol and vitamin D supplementation on asthmatic patients.
MEF25 = Maximal Expiratory Flow at 25% of Forced Vital Capacity
 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life - Clinical Trials 70 Vitamin D intervention trials for Asthma of Nov 2020, including
- Studies Suggest an Acetaminophen-Asthma Link NYT Dec 2011 - NOT vitamin D
- The sharp worldwide increase in childhood asthma over the past 30 years has long perplexed researchers,
- Doctors stopped giving aspirin to children with fevers, opting instead for acetaminophen. (Reyes - 1980's)
- Vitamin D Life wonders if this association deals with world-wide, latitude, etc.
- International patent for vitamin D and analogs to prevent asthma
- Why are asthma rates higher among children now than in the past? Medical Expresss Nov 2012
- Have given up on many previous hypothesis, and now considering vitamin D deficiency]
- Effects of vitamin D levels on asthma control and severity in pre-school children 2016
- Ages 1-4, winter, free PDF online
- 10 ng/ml in the asthma group and 15 ng/ml control group
- Vitamin d insufficiency and asthma severity in adults from Costa Rica Sept 2013
5X less likely to be hospitalized for Asthma if adequate vitamin D
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The worse the asthma in children, the lower their vitamin D level - Feb 2019
Serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D in asthmatic children and its relation to disease severity
International Journal o fCommunity Medicine and Public Health, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20185510
Ihab Hafez El Sawy, Passant Al-Said Moaz, Ghada Mohamed Farouk El Deriny, Mohamed Sami Abd El Moniem El Kholy
Background: Asthma is a chronic immunological disorder of the lungs. Vitamin D has several effects on the innate and adaptive immune systems. Little is known about vitamin D level and its impact on severity of asthma in children. This study aimed to determine vitamin D levels in asthmatics versus control children; studying the relation if any between these levels and asthma severity.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 60 asthmatic children and 20 apparently healthy children as controls. Asthma patients were divided into 3 groups (mild, moderate, severe; 20 each). Asthma severity was based on GINA criteria. Vitamin D level was measured to all study group.
Results: The difference between the mean values of vitamin D level in control and asthmatic patients was statistically significant (p<0.001). This difference between control group and each asthma subgroup and between asthma subgroups versus each other were statistically significant being highest in control and lowest in patients with severe asthma (p<0.001). Differences in vitamin D status in control and all asthmatic patients were statistically significant (p<0.001). The difference between control group and each asthma subgroup according to vitamin D status were statistically significant (p<0.001). Concerning asthma subgroups the difference in vitamin D status between severe versus mild and moderate asthma were statistically significant (p<0.001), while between mild and moderate asthma it was not.
Conclusions: Significantly lower vitamin D level in asthmatic children compared to controls and a differential decrease in vitamin D levels in asthmatic children being lowest in severe asthma was confirmed.
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Asthma Drug Therapy (nothing about Vitamin D)
Asthma is the most common health problem in children, inhalers not used properly - March 2019
Using an Asthma Inhaler Correctly NYT
- "Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, and using an asthma inhaler is often a first step toward medical autonomy for a child with asthma"
- "Once or twice a day, children may take what are called controller therapies, most often inhaled corticosteroids which decrease chronic inflammation in the lungs and make exacerbations less likely. And then, when they feel symptoms coming on, or find themselves in a situation where symptoms seem likely, they use what are called rescue medications, bronchodilators which relax the smooth muscle so that air can move through those tubes."
- "You have to take off the cap, shake the inhaler for three to five seconds and connect it to the spacer (a chamber between the inhaler and the patient’s mouth that holds the drug suspended and makes it easier to breathe it in). Then you are supposed to exhale completely, and put the mouthpiece or mask in or around your mouth correctly, forming a tight seal. Then you release the medication from the inhaler by pressing the canister down, breathe in slowly and deeply through the spacer (for spacers with a whistle, you do not want to hear the whistle), and hold your breath for 10 seconds. Finally, you exhale again — and then you wait a minute and repeat the process."
- "Eighty-four percent of the patients did not wait the 30 seconds that the researchers felt was the absolute minimum time between inhalations. More than 50 percent waited less than 15 seconds."
Asthma reduced by Diet, Magnesium, Vitamin D, Tumeric, Breathing Exercises, Pine Bark, Vit B6
8 Proven Ways To Relieve Asthma Naturally GreenMed Info Jan 2019
- "Asthma affects about 300 million people worldwide.It is growing by 50 percent every decade and causes upwards of 180,000 deaths per year"
- "In a study of 1,531 children in Manitoba, Canada, researchers found that the risk of developing asthma by the age of seven was cut in half when the first diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) immunization was delayed by more than two months. Delaying all three doses of DPT vaccines cut asthma risk by 60 percent."
Items in both Vitamin D Life categories of Breathing and Magnesium:
Factoids from The Body by Bill Bryson, 2019
- The U.K.:30 percent of children have shown asthma symptoms.
- The lowest rates are in China, Greece, Georgia, Romania, and Russia, with just 3 percent.
- Pearce. “I have spent thirty years studying asthma, and the main thing I have achieved is to show that almost none of the things people think cause asthma actually do. They can provoke attacks if you have asthma already, but they don’t cause it. We have very little idea what the primary causes are. We can do nothing to prevent it.”
- with some asthmatics if you put their feet in a bucket of ice water, they begin to wheeze immediately. Now, that can’t be due to inflammation, because it happens too fast.
- Asthma is very different from other lung disorders in that it is normally present only some of the time.
- Even when there are no symptoms present, other diseases will nearly always be evident in blood or sputum tests. In asthma, in some cases, the disease just vanishes.”
Items in both categories Breathing and Dark Skins are listed here:
- Black infant recurrent wheezing rate dropped from 42 percent to 31 percent with just 400 IU of vitamin D – RCT Dec 2018
- Indoor pollution is a problem with obese black asthmatic children – May 2018
- Lung capacity (Vo2max) reduced in senior African American women with low vitamin D – Feb 2014
- Many possible associations of increased asthma in black children – Nov 2010
- Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among asthmatic African-Americans – Aug 2010