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Kids can get sufficient vitamin D from Children's Multivitamin, or Total Vites
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| Children's Multivitamin | T-L Vites |
New Pediatric Guideline for Kids
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has doubled the amount of Vitamin D recommended from 200 IU to 400 IU per day for infants, children and adolescents. Remarkably, this new guideline is recommended for infants starting in the first few days of life.
New research indicates that 400 units a day will prevent and treat rickets. Adequate D through childhood may also reduce the risk of osteoporosis later in life.
For children and adolescents, the AAP recommends those who do not obtain 400 IU/day through vitamin D-fortified milk and foods should take a 400 IU vitamin D supplement daily. However, according to head researcher and author of groundbreaking studies on vitamin D, Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D., Boston University of Medicine, "You would need to drink 10 glasses of fortified milk everyday just to get the minimum necessary level of vitamin D."
"You would need to drink 10
glasses of fortified milk
everyday just to get minimum necessary level of vitamin D."
The new clinical report expected to be published in the journal Pediatrics is titled "Prevention of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency in Infants, Children, and Adolescents."
Foods sources of vitamin D include:
Cod liver oil (*see caution below)
Fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, sardines, herring
Vitamin D-fortified milk and cereal
Eggs
*Dr. John Cannell, head of the Vitamin D Council cautions that most cod liver oil prducts provide excessive amounts of vitamin A, which could be toxic. Make sure the Cod Liver Oil product that you buy has the proper ratio--at least 4 times the amount of vitamin D as is it does vitamin A.
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