Call for children to be given vitamin D as cases of rickets triple
- Survey A: 1,000 parents of children aged five and under
half know little or nothing about the role of vitamin D in their child’s health
more than a third have never received information about the importance of the vitamin for their child’s health
More than 80 per cent were unaware of the Department of Health (DoH) guidance that all children aged six months to five years old should take a daily supplement of vitamin D
Note by Vitamin D Life – nothing for ages 0-6 months? - Survey B: 250 GPs and health visitors
almost a third are unaware of the DoH guidance
Just seven % of those who are responsible for conveying key healthcare messages to new mothers were aware which months (between March and September)
Above article refers people to http://www.vitamindmission.co.uk
- Toddlers need 280 IU daily.
- Upper safe limit 625 IU/day for infants 0–12 months
See also Vitamin D Life
- 3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before – Oct 2014
- Third study found that Infants needed 1600 IU of vitamin D – JAMA RCT May 2013
1600 IU is needed - yet the UK says 625 IU is the upper limint - Post-mortem analysis of children in London Hospital – only 1 child had adequate level of vitamin D – July 2014
- UK-NICE draft on vitamin D – extremely low doses and levels– May 2014
- Rickets in England – huge recent increase – Feb 2014
- NHS (UK) mistakenly says more than 1000 IU of vitamin D can be harmful – Dec 2013
- Why the UK government ignores evidence for the benefits of Vitamin D - Nov 2013
- Rickets reduced 60X - lessons learned by Turkey 2011 they gave, for free, 400 IU vitamin D to ALL infants
- Perhaps half of Russian children have rickets, 500 IU vitamin D was not enough – June 2013
- Rickets: Less costly to prevent than to treat SE Asians in UK – 2006 yet 10 years later the UK still does not provide vitamin D
- Infant-Child category listing with associated searches
- UK program to increase Vitamin D (Healthy Start) continues to be a farce - Nov 2014
- Doctors not consistent on prescribing Vitamin D (Pakistan in this case) July 2018