Breastfeeding and Vitamin D Deficiency
Although exclusively breast feeding in the first few months of life reduces the risk of obesity, asthma, and other respiratory illnesses in children, it is a risk factor for developing a vitamin D deficiency (without vitamin D supplements). There is little vitamin D in human milk and the vitamin D status of the woman during pregnancy and breast feeding is important. If a woman is deficient in vitamin D the amount of vitamin D transferred to the baby is limited.
20.09.2007. 19:48
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