Vitamin D supplement advised if unable to go outside

In a statement issued to Prime Time, the department said: "With regard to Covid-19, the HSE advises that those who are self-isolating or who are unable to go outside should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of Vitamin D to ensure a healthy Vitamin D status for adults and children over the age of one."

Professor Mairead Kiely from the Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research at UCC believes a person's nutritional status influences how they will respond if they contract Covid-19. In Ireland we produce Vitamin D after spending 10 to 15 minutes exposed to the sun from late March to late September. But Professor Kiely said: "Between October and the end of March, the sun is at an angle hitting Ireland that is too low for us to make Vitamin D in our skin. UVB needs to hit your skin in such a way that you are going to start synthesising Vitamin D in your skin."

"Unfortunately there isn’t a national policy for food fortification with Vitamin D. That would be the safest and most reliable way for people to get ten micrograms Vitamin D a day from their diet," Prof Kiely said. The Department of Health has also told Prime Time that it has asked the scientific community of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland to examine the evidence and make recommendations in relation to Vitamin D supplementation in older people.

Dr Eamon Laird, from Trinity College said: "We are not saying that Vitamin D is a magic cure. You are not going to take Vitamin D and be prevented from getting Covid.It is just one bit of a tiny jigsaw puzzle. Its physical activity, it's healthy diet, it’s maintaining a good social distance and infection control measures. All of this together supports the immune system. Vitamin D is no magic bullet.

If really needed then why advise of it now and not 2 months ago?

People need to just get outside period.

Wow, it took them this long to come up with this! Did they have to wait for CMO to sanction it? What a bunch...

Or just join a huge protest.

Or just go outside.

How to if they cannot go outside?

Finally! RoseAnnekenny1

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