Pages tagged with "Infant-Child"
- WHO says that infants not need vitamin D until 6 months and only 200 IU after - 2013
- Hypothesis: recent increases in flat-headed infants is due to low vitamin D
- Children with Cancer were 3X more likely to be vitamin D deficient
- Breastfed Infants in Iowa got very little vitamin D, especially if winter or dark skin
- Child bone conference: many vitamin D and ricket abstracts
- Preemies have increased need for vitamin D and Calcium (Rickets)
- Chronic kidney with low vitamin D: 90 percent of pediatric nephrologists now recommend more D
- 400 IU vitamin D was insufficient for 6 percent born of Vitamin D-Deficient Mothers
- Most European infants get vitamin D supplements, vs only 1 in 50 in US
- Took 4 months of 400 IU vitamin D for Iranian infants to get serum level of 30 ng
- Largest cause of infant deaths is respiratory infections, which is associated with low vitamin D
- Congenital heart surgery dropped vitamin D levels by 40 percent
- Children low on vitamin D were 2X more likely to have diarrhea and vomiting
- Breastfed infants: 90 percent had less than 20 ng of vitamin D, formula-fed: 15 percent
- Group is giving only 200 IU of Vitamin D to 70 million women and children to prevent Rickets
- March of Dimes pays for study of Vitamin D
- Black infants had far lower vitamin D levels which did not vary with season
- Middle ear infection (Otitis Media) and Vitamin D – many studies
- Many preemies need at least 800 IU of vitamin D – RCT
- Third study found that Infants needed 1600 IU of vitamin D – JAMA RCT