Greater Glasgow and Clyde Medicines

Restrictions:

Excludes Fultium D3 3,200 unit strength. Invita D3 oral ampoules are restricted to use only when other oral vitamin D preparations are not suitable.

Prescribing Notes:

For NHSGGC guidance on when to measure vitamin D levels and the subsequent management of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency click here.  Also see the Prescribing Resources page for further useful documents.

Vitamin D supplementation usually falls into two broad categories, low dose supplementation and high dose supplementation.  Low dose is considered to be doses of 1,000 units daily or less and is used most often for supplementation in insufficiency states. High dose vitamin D is considered to be doses in excess of 20,000 units per week.  High dose vitamin D is more likely to be used in deficiency states leading to morbidity.

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