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The promising results of this study suggest that timely supplementation with vitamin D3 may help prevent seasonal influenza A, though not influenza B, in school-aged children. A side finding was that children with asthma taking vitamin D3 experienced fewer exacerbations, though not a lesser rate of influenza A infection. I hope this trial will be replicated, and with measurement of 25-OH D levels, in both children and adults, to help tease out the role of vitamin D in flu prevention.

"D-feat D Flu?" Vitamin D and Pediatric Influenza