VITAMIN D INTOXICATION: REPORT OF TWO CASES TREATED WITH CORTISONE
- 1 April 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 48 (4), 765-773
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-48-4-765
Abstract
Two elderly adults with vitamin D Intoxication presented clinical syndromes of mental confusion, dehydration, polyuria, hypercalcemia, normophosphatemia and hypokalemic alkalosis. Each patient had received intoxicating doses of vitamin D from druggists without a physician''s prescription. Cortisone therapy resulted in an improved mental status in 48 hours and a return of serum Ca levels to normal in 8 and 13 days, respectively.Keywords
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