We are talking about vitamin D. About it BELTA said laboratory diagnostics doctor, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor Irina Kurstak.
“If we randomly conduct a screening study on the amount of vitamin D in the blood in the Belarusian population, then 99% have a deficiency or deficiency. It apparently persists since childhood,” the doctor noted.
According to Irina Kurstak, only recently have Belarusians become actively involved in the prevention of vitamin D deficiency. Mothers give it to their babies from birth and begin to take it themselves.
The doctor advises to check the level of vitamin D concentration in the blood at least once. If the indicators are within the normal range, they usually take prophylactic doses of the drug; if they are very low, first therapeutic doses, then prophylactic ones.
