How To Treat Kallmann Syndrome

Ensure Adequate Vitamin D And Calcium Intake

Ensuring adequate vitamin D and calcium intake in a Kallmann syndrome patient can be a vital part of their treatment process. Approximately forty-three percent of all individuals affected by Kallmann syndrome become deficient in vitamin D or calcium at some point. Individuals who are at a high risk of developing bone issues like osteoporosis need to ensure they are eating enough food or supplementing to meet their daily values of both vitamin D and calcium. Without vitamin D, the body is unable to absorb calcium successfully from an individual's dietary intake. However, vitamin D can be generated in the body from exposure to the sun. Individuals from nine to eighteen years old should get 1,300 milligrams of calcium and four hundred IU of vitamin D every day. Individuals between nineteen and forty-nine years old should get one thousand milligrams of calcium and four to eight hundred IU of vitamin D per day. Individuals who are fifty years old or older should get 1,200 milligrams of calcium and eight hundred to one thousand IU of vitamin D every day. Many Kallmann syndrome patients take prescription supplements of calcium andvitamin D to help balance out their deficiency.