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.
Muscle and bone biopsy were not done. The cause of vitamin D deficiency (osteomalacia) was not evident, and it was considered nutritional in origin. The patient was treated with vitamin D3 (1500 IU/day) with calcium supplementation (1500 mg/day). Naproxen (500 mg) was advised as abortive therapy for severe body or head pain.