Most Children Are Not Getting Enough Vitamin D GrassrootsHealth Oct 2021
- Supplement preterm infants with vitamin D if less than 80 ng – RCT Sept 2021
- 36X more likely for an infant to be low vitamin D if exclusively breastfed (Hong Kong) – March 2021
- Children's Cancer hospital now testing vitamin D frequently and supplementing weekly – July 2021
- Severe pediatric COVID 5.5 more likely if low vitamin D (review of 6 studies) -July 2021
- Vitamin D for infants – 100,000 IU monthly is better than 400 IU daily – RCT Oct 2020
- 73 percent of US infants still do not even get 400 IU of Vitamin D - June 2020
- Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
- Children 41X more likely to be vitamin D deficient if both parents were deficient – Dec 2018
- Is 50 ng of vitamin D too high, just right, or not enough
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- Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.) - June 2020
- Need 40 to 60 ng of Vitamin D – 48 scientists call for action – 2015
- Elite outdoor athletes had 52 ng of vitamin D – March 2013
- 10 Reasons why children no longer have healthy levels of Vitamin D
- Reasons for children having low vitamin D (proposed by 10 societies) - May 2018
- 86 percent of US military no longer have enough Vitamin D (30 ng) – Dec 2020
- Vitamin D levels have been crashing since 1995 (Polish Children, Elite Military, etc)
- Vitamin D levels have probably continues to drop since then
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- Vitamin D deficiency in children is common German Sept 2021
- Children aged aged 3-15 in Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden
- 97% had <30 ng / ml).
- 2021 Canadian study of children defined Vitamin D adequacacy as >16 ng
Items in both categories Infant-Child and Deficiency are listed here:
- Only 3.4% of Portuguese children get vitamin D supplements (good dose taken weekly costs only 50 cents) – May 2024
- Nutrient consumption – only 7% of recommended DRV of Vitamin D (German Children in this case) – Jan 2024
- Vitamin D recommended for infants by 98% of Belgian pediatricians - 2024
- Respiratory infection, children and Vitamin D - many studies
- Depressed infants have very low Vitamin D (7.5 ng) – June 2023
- 94 percent of children with Chronic Neurological Diseases had low vitamin D – April 2023
- Vitamin D Deficiency in children in SE Asia – Oct 2022
- 24 Vitamin D global guidelines for children, huge diversity – Sept 2022
- Half of infants had less than 20 ng of Vitamin D with 800 IU (need more) – RCT Sept 2022
- Poor children were 2X more-likely to be vitamin D deficient (Ireland) – July 2022
- Vitamin D levels in new borns are so low that they are considering supplementing to prevent Rickets (Japan) – July 2022
- Newly diagnosed Children with Cancer have low vitamin D, especially if black - May 2022
- Arctic school children in Russia: only 1 in 11 has more than 30 ng of Vitamin D – April 2022
- Majority of South Asian children and youths have low vitamin D (85 pcnt of neonates) – March 2022
- Half of Mongolian schoolchildren have less than 10 ng of vitamin D – Nov 2021
- 93 percent of US children had less than 40 ng of vitamin D a decade ago – Oct 2021
- 73 percent of US infants still do not even get 400 IU of Vitamin D - June 2020
- Recurrent Wheezing in children is associated with low Vitamin D – several studies
- Children with low Vitamin D slept 1 hour less, had 1 hour later bedtimes – July 2020
- Respiratory viral infection (RSV) and low vitamin D - many studies
- Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Infants reduced 5.9 X by daily 600 IU of vitamin D (China) - March 2020
- Germany raised Vitamin D RDA to 800 IU - helped infants, but not children (who need even more) – June 2019
- Turkey needs to give Vitamin D to children too (infants get D for free) – June 2019
- Preemies still have low vitamin D at age 6 – Oct 2019
- Children in Mongolia helped by 800 IU of Vitamin D (need a lot more) – RCT Oct 2019
- Teeth from 19th century London indicate that most children were Vitamin D Deficient - Oct 2019
- Obesity 3X more likely in US children having low vitamin D – July 2019
- Allergic Rhinitis in infants treated by 1,000 IU vitamin D daily – June 2019
- Vitamin D levels have been crashing since 1995 (Polish Children, Elite Military, etc)
- Child exposed to smoke is 1.5 X more likely to have low vitamin D – Oct 2018
- Children need vitamin D - good global overview, poor recommendations for Italian children - May 2018
- Reasons for children having low vitamin D (proposed by 10 societies) - May 2018
- Both parents smoke – child’s vitamin D level was 30 percent lower and worse asthma – May 2018
- Vitamin D needed to get children to just 20 ng in winter 800 IU white skin, 1100 IU dark (Sweden) – RCT June 2017
- Vitamin D deficiency in pediatric critical illness: Time to move on from observational studies – Nov 2016
- Many US kids have less than 40 ng of Vitamin D – 99 out of 100 blacks, 91 out of 100 whites – Jan 2017
- Children in Intensive Care need Vitamin D loading dose of 10000 IU per kg (nearing a consensus) - Oct 2016
- 3X increase in UK children who are vitamin D deficient in just 5 years – Nov 2015
- 3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before – Oct 2014
- 93% of newborns of military in Hawaii had low vitamin D – March 2013
- Giving vitamin D to ALL children reduced (rickets) symptoms by 60 percent – Aug 2012
- 83 percent of children had less than 20 ng of vitamin D – 15 ng avg for hispanic – Aug 2012
- Death of Babies in UK due to vitamin D deficiency – Jan 2012
- Low D in developing countries – less than 5 ng in some children in China – Oct 2010
- Very short children were very low on vitamin D and Calcium – Aug 2010
- Obama task force told that childhood Obesity linked to Vitamin D Deficiency – Aug 2010
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