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"All residents in the nursing-home receive chronic vitamin D supplementation with regular maintenance boluses (single oral dose of 80,000 IU vitamin D3 every 2–
by xivzgrev 6y ago
"All residents in the nursing-home receive chronic vitamin D supplementation with regular maintenance boluses (single oral dose of 80,000 IU vitamin D3 every 2–3 months)"
Holy shit that's a lot of vitamin D
- scythe 6y agoAFAICT the bolus supplements are meant to take months to absorb. This is probably easier and definitely cheaper than giving daily supplement pills. I'm not sure if there are serious downsides to bolus supplementation, but it's probably not worse than most nursing-home cost-cutting tactics.