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Vitamin D Supplementation To Prevent Rickets in Breast-Fed Babies

Source: www.ahrq.gov
Topic: Rickets
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Sort Desciption: Vitamin D is necessary for proper bone growth, but it is not found in many foods naturally. ... Nutritional rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft and do not develop properly. ..

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Vitamin D is necessary for proper bone growth, but it is not found in many foods naturally. It is synthesized in the skin with exposure to sunlight, but many babies do not get much exposure to the sun for a number of reasons, such as not spending time outdoors and wearing clothes, hats, or sunscreen. The darker an infant's skin, the more sun exposure is needed to synthesize vitamin D. Although breastfeeding is the ideal form of nutrition for infants, it does not supply the vitamin D needed for healthy bone growth. Nutritional rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft and do not develop properly.

Thanks largely to vitamin D supplementation of infant formula and recognition of the need for sunlight, rickets had become largely a thing of the past in the United States. However, cases of nutritional rickets among babies have been on the rise recently.

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