Giraffe
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Peat said that too little calcium and vitamin D and too much phosphate lead to kidney degeneration, and supplementing those "in many cases will correct the whatever the liver and kidney problem is." [source]
I found a couple of studies that link itching (and a couple of other skin and nail abnormalities) to either kidney disease or low vitamin D levels. Sure there are other possible causes, but since it is so easy to correct low vitamin D levels and to increase calcium intake/decrease phosphorus intake, it's worth a try.
Idiopathic itch, rash, and urticaria/angioedema merit serum vitamin D evaluation: a descriptive case series.
Low vitamin D levels were defined as <32 ng/mL. People were treated with oral supplementation of vitamin D.
Skin and serum levels of calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D3 in uremic pruritus patients before and after broad band ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy
Here UVB phototherapy was used.
Skin and nail abnormalities are found in most patients with chronic kidney disease.
Cutaneous abnormalities in patients with end stage renal failure on chronic hemodialysis. A study of 458 patients.
I found a couple of studies that link itching (and a couple of other skin and nail abnormalities) to either kidney disease or low vitamin D levels. Sure there are other possible causes, but since it is so easy to correct low vitamin D levels and to increase calcium intake/decrease phosphorus intake, it's worth a try.
Idiopathic itch, rash, and urticaria/angioedema merit serum vitamin D evaluation: a descriptive case series.
Low vitamin D levels were defined as <32 ng/mL. People were treated with oral supplementation of vitamin D.
With vitamin D treatment 70% (40/57) had complete resolution of symptoms. Mean 25[OH]D for vitamin D responsive patients (16.8 ng/mL) was significantly lower than for vitamin D non-responsive treated patients (20.9 ng/mL, P = 0.02 by unpaired t-Test). Resolution of cutaneous symptoms with vitamin D supplementation occurred in a mean of 4.2 weeks. Symptom recurrence was seen in subsequent months only if vitamin D insufficiency recurred.
Skin and serum levels of calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D3 in uremic pruritus patients before and after broad band ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy
Here UVB phototherapy was used.
The study was carried out on 18 uremic patients having uremic pruritus and 9 healthy volunteers who served as controls. [...] Disappearance of itching occurred in all patients following UVB phototherapy.
Skin and nail abnormalities are found in most patients with chronic kidney disease.
Cutaneous abnormalities in patients with end stage renal failure on chronic hemodialysis. A study of 458 patients.
A total of 394/458 (86%) patients had cutaneous abnormalities. These included pruritus (56.6% of patients), paleness (60.7%), xerosis (52.8%), hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation (38.4%), venous dilation near the fistula (22.2%), eczema in the fistula area (14.8%), half-and-half nails (13.5%), onychodystrophy (6.1%), subungual hemorrhage (4.5%), leukonychia (4.5%), stomatitis (5.6%), xerostomia (3.2%), gingivitis (2.4%), uremic breath (2.1%), and skin calcificatins (0.4%). Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy was not detected in any of our patients.