Pages tagged with "Infant-Child"
- Critically ill children – randomized clinical trial to give single doses of up to 400,000 IU of vitamin D – 2019
- Preemies, Vitamin D, Omega-3, etc. - several studies
- The Convergence of Two Epidemics: Vitamin D Deficiency in Obese School-aged Children
- Autistic children have lower levels of Iron, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc
- Give 400 IU to all infants – majority of Turkish pediatricians
- Childhood cancer survivors have increased chronic health problems as adults
- Low Vitamin D in infants - video interview of Dr. Holick
- Large soft spot on infant’s head (anterior fontanelle) is associated with low vitamin D
- Children helped by 2,000 IU of vitamin D, but not RDA amount (600 IU) – RCT
- Omega supplementation helped preemie sensory processing – RCT
- Respiratory infection in infant was 7 X more likely if low cord Vitamin D
- Child is 2 X more likely to get influenza if have older sibling (perhaps closely-spaced birth)
- 1900 IU provides some increase in Vitamin D in both mother and breast milk
- Child 49 percent higher risk of being overweight if preeclampsia during pregnancy
- When to start Vitamin D after European births - UK 180 days, many 6-31 days, the rest 1-5 days
- Canadian Paediatric Society – vitamin D recommendations unchanged since 2007
- Black infants far less likely to be breast-fed (wonder – culture or low Vitamin D)
- 10X increase in cost of vitamin D per child-year in UK in 6 years
- Lupus in children 2.6 X more likely if they had poor Vitamin D Receptor
- Food allergies in children may be due to earlier low Vitamin D, Omega-3 and Zinc