Infant-Child

Overview

• No consensus on MINIMUM International Units (IU) for healthy infant of normal weight

• 400 IU Vitamin D is no longer enough

  • Was OK in the past century, but D levels have been dropping for a great many reasons.
  • FDA doubles the amount of vitamin D permitted in milk – July 2016

• No consensus: range is 600 to 1600 IU – based on many randomized controlled trials

• Review of 400 IU to 2000 IU daily and higher if non-daily

• Fewer pre-infants were vitamin D deficient when they got 800 IU – RCT Feb 2014

• 1600 IU was the conclusion of three JAMA studies

  •     1000 IU recommended in France and Finland – 2013 - appears to be a good level

• 5X less mite allergy after add vitamin D

• Child bone fractures with low vitamin D were 55X more likely to need surgery

• 75 % of SIDS had low vitamin D

• Children stayed in ICU 3.5 days longer if low vitamin D – Dec 2015

• 5 out of 6 children who died in pediatric critical care unit had low vitamin D – May 2014

• Infants have gotten free 400 IU of vitamin D in Turkey since 2005, More for longer would be even better – Feb 2022

• Preemies should have vitamin D supplements – reaching an agreement – April 2021

• Vitamin D loading dose was as effective as daily dosing (rickets in this case) – RCT July 2021

  Having a good level of vitamin D cuts in half the amount of:

• Asthma, Chronic illness, Doctor visits, Allergies, infection

  • Respiratory Tract Infection, Growing pains, Bed wetting

  Need even more IUs of vitamin D to get a good level if;

• Have little vitamin D: premie, twin, mother did not get much sun access

• Get little vitamin D: dark skin, little access to sun

• Vitamin D is consumed faster than normal due to sickness

• Older (need at least 100 IU/kilogram, far more if obese)

• Not get any vitamin D from formula (breast fed) or (fortified) milk

  • Note – formula does not even provide 400 IU of vitamin D daily

  Infants-Children need Vitamin D

• Sun is great – well known for 1,000’s of years.

  • US govt (1934) even said infants should be out in the sun

• One country recommended 2,000 IU daily for decades – with no known problems

• As with adults, infants and children can have loading doses and rarely need tests

• Daily dose appears to be best, but monthly seems OK

• Vitamin D is typically given to infants in the form of drops

  •     big difference in taste between brands
  •     can also use water-soluable form of vitamin D in milk, food, juice,
• Infants have evolved to get a big boost of vitamin D immediately after birth
  • Colostrum has 3X more vitamin D than breast milk - provided the mother has any vitamin D to spare
• 100 IU per kg of infant July 2011, Poland etc.
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  • More than 100 IU/kg is probably better

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Did you know that:

Getting Vitamin D into infants

Many infants reject vitamin D drops, even when put on nipple

I speculate that the rejection is due to one or more of: additives, taste, and oils .

Infants have a hard time digesting oils, 1999  1997    and palm oils W.A. Price 1 2 3

Coconut oil, such as in D-Drops, is digested by infants. 1,   2   3

Bio-Tech Pharmacal Vitamin D has NO additves, taste, nor oil

One capsule of 50,000 Bio-Tech Pharmacal Vitamin D could be stirred into monthly formula or given once a month

    this would result in ~1,600 IUs per day for infant, and higher dose with weight/age/formula consumption

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Search terms for Children and Vitamin D - May 2021

Analysis of Development Trends of the Research Hotspots of Vitamin D in Children

Front. Pediatr., 06 May 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.899844

Xuemei Luo, Feifeng Wu, Cheng Wang and Chuan Wen*

Department of Pediatrics, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Objective: Using multivariate statistics and social network analysis techniques, we present a realistic and intuitive visualization of the research hotspots and development trends of vitamin D in children.

Methods: The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term “vitamin D” was used to search all the publications (the study subjects were 0–18 years old) included in PubMed by time period. The subject terms for each development stage were extracted, the high-frequency subject terms were extracted using the Bibliographic Items Co-occurrence Matrix Builder (BICOMB), and a core subject term co-occurrence matrix was established. The Netdraw function of Ucinet 6.0 software was used to complete the social network drawing of the core subject term co-occurrence matrix to form a co-word network diagram composed of core subject terms.

Results: Prior to 1979, there were 890 papers with 1,899 core subject terms; from 2010 to 2020, there were 3,773 papers with 12,682 core subject terms. Before 1979, the research direction of vitamin D in children focused on vitamin D in the classical regulation of calcium and phosphorus metabolism. From 1980 to 1989, studies focused on vitamin D metabolites and therapeutic drugs such as “calcitriol” and “calcifediol.” From 1990 to 1999, studies focused on “calcitriol” and its association with “psoriasis,” “chronic renal failure,” and “dermatological drugs.” From 2000 to 2009, studies focused on “vitamin D” and “vitamin D deficiency.” From 2010 to 2020, studies focused on “vitamin D3” and its association with “vitamins,” “bone mineral density protectants,” “asthma,” “obesity,” “pregnancy complications” and “fetal blood.”

Conclusion: Since 2010, the research direction of vitamin D in children has been growing rapidly, and the overall development trend is good. Studies extend from the study of the skeletal effect of vitamin D to the study of its extraskeletal effect and the investigation of mechanisms of its association with related diseases.

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