The Snake in the Garden. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. Step by step the second chapter of Genesis has been preparing the reader for the third chapter, but coming to it for the first time we find we are still unprepared. We have been told that God made everything good.
Vitamin D Treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease. Two nonmutually exclusive vitamin D treatment strategies for CKD patients are the correction of vitamin D substrate insufficiency using nonactivated vitamin D products (cholecalciferol, ergocalciferol) and direct activated vitamin D therapy using calcitriol or an analogue.
When calcium is low and/or a person has symptoms of vitamin D deficiency, such as bone malformation in children (rickets) and bone weakness, softness, or fracture in adults (osteomalacia), 25-hydroxyvitamin D usually is ordered to identify a possible deficiency in vitamin D.arely, this testing may be indicated when abnormalities of the enzyme that converts 25-hydroxyvitamin D to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D or renal disease are suspected. When vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, or magnesium supplementation is necessary, vitamin D levels are sometimes measured to monitor treatment effectiveness.