#Deficiency

I wonder how often severe COVID disease in healthy young adults is due to undiagnosed IgA deficiency? Elevated IL-8 may be a biomarker for both IgA deficiency and severe disease.

Angela Mayfield

I will KRONCH the tiny ice every time, but real quick:Pagophagia (eating ice) can be a sign of iron deficiency with or without anemia, so if this is you, a

Vivien Shotwell ♪

"This really matters in a viral pandemic, as vitamin D is critically important in helping our immune system to resist viral infection, & to limit inflammation when infection does occur.

Ashley Winter MD || Urologist

Hi all! Please don't "megadose" vitamin C & D for Covid protection. It can cause kidney stones.-your friendly local Urologist. To be more specific:Excess vit C = hyperoxaluria--> stonesExcess vit

Gbénró Adégbolá ن

Apparently there’s an ‘epidemic’ of Vit. D deficiency in most white collared Nigerians. This is very strange because sun ray is the most efficient catalyst of its production by the

Michael I McBurney

DHA is not essential. Agreed as deficiency diseases are not evident. However, does that mean that a dietary intake sufficient to maintain a RBC concentration (and availability to other cells/organs)

I have friends who pour so much into me. But I’m realizing that I focus on the ones who are hot and cold or halfway out the door, because I

Zavén Sargsyan

1/ Why do some people treat B12 deficiency with oral B12 even if the problem is poor absorption? Is this a good idea? Is it a paradox? Let’s reconcile, @tonybrue

This mouse study is used as evidence that seed oils (linoleic acid) causes obesity. It uses very well controlled diets. Mice eating 1% linoleic acid gained less fat than those

Be honest with me: does the bay leaf even do anything? I've been putting these things in soups my whole life and I could not begin to tell you what

Partial leptin deficiency confers resistance to diet-induced obesity i...https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877820300697 It's almost like the insulin story... cc: @JimJohnsonSci Their model: "we conclude that in leptin se

Shematologist, MD

Given a lot of questions after a recent tweet on iron deficiency, I thought a #tweetorial might be in order. Iron deficiency anemia affects a large proportion of the worlds

Today’s case: 18 month old child. HX OF FAILED CLOSED REDUCTION AT 9 months of age. Open reduction pelvic osteotomy adductor tenotomy and hip spica done. No tension at reduction

Useful thread that I’ll translate from Danish. I don’t necessarily endorse any particular statement. First translation in following tweet.https://twitter.com/MaMoMVPY/status/1321705590821920770 “Since March, I have spent a lot of time

Eczema is actually a symptom of omega-6 deficiency, there are two ways such a deficiency can occur1. Not consuming adequate PUFA in the diet, this is extremely uncommon but possible2.

Valeria, RD, MPH

Vitamin B12 (A VERY LONG THREAD)Conventional method of testing for B12 deficiency is to test levels in the blood. The range is quite large: 160 to 950 pg/mL (Canada) and