What is 50,000 international units of vitamin A?!


Question: What is 50,000 international units of vitamin A.?
i need to buy vitamins ... and take 50,000 international units of Vit.A what the hell does that mean.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
There are only a couple of reasons why a person would take that much vitamin A - and if that was the case, a doctor would have written a prescription for it, and you would get it filled at a hospital pharmacy.

That's a poisonous dose of A - if you simply read something that it would clear your acne, throw the book out.Health Question & Answer

that's a lot of vitamin A - 10 times the USRDA (recommended daily allowance). Vitamin A is fat soluble which means your body can store it and won't automatically eliminate excess - and it also means that it can reach toxic levels in your body. It can be used at high doses therapeutically, but don't take that much unless you are under a doctor's care.


"The Institute of Medicine has established Daily Tolerable Upper Levels (UL) of intake for vitamin A from supplements that apply to healthy populations, in order to help prevent the risk of vitamin A toxicity. These levels for preformed vitamin A in micrograms (

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