"This careful and thorough review of the primary care records enabled us to determine that daily vitamin D supplementation given to the mothers during the latter half of pregnancy, and then their infants to age 6 months, resulted in a smaller proportion of infants making any primary care visits...
Vitamin D supplementation has great benefits as an anti-inflammatory agent in infants with CHF. It helps acceleration of the clinical improvement and cytokine profile balance.Pediatric CardiologyShedeed, Soad
Supplementation of 800 IU vitamin D in the areas of maternal vitamin D deficiency has no greater benefits for the infants.doi:doi:10.1053/S0146-0005(03)00067-3Ismail PehlivanSükrü HatunMetin AydoanKadir BabaoluAye Sevim GkalpPubMedThe Turkish journal of pediatrics...
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that our skin synthesizes when exposed to the sun. It benefits us in many ways, from bone health to mood.
. Very low–quality data suggested that regular vitamin D supplementation in infants during the first year of life increased the risk of allergic rhinitis (relative risk [RR], 1.31; 95% CI, 1.15 to 1.49) compared with no or irregular vitamin D supplementation. Supplementation in infants had ...
Benefits of Vitamin D Here are seven benefits of vitamin D: Improved bone health. Reduced risk of heart attack and all-cause mortality. Asthma management. Lower inflammation in people with heart failure. Lower risk of several chronic conditions. Improved calcium absorption in the small intestine. ...
Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy and infancy may help to reduce New Zealand's high childhood allergy rate.
Post hoc analysis has suggested some extra-skeletal benefits for individuals with vitamin D deficiency. Over 60 Mendelian randomization studies, designed to minimize bias from confounding, have evaluated the consequences of lifelong genetically lowered serum 25OHD concentrations on various outcomes and ...
Vitamin D’s benefits for mental health may not be limited to depression. A 2004 study from Finland98showed that the risk of developing schizophrenia in adult men was greatly increased in those who had never had vitamin D supplementation as infants, compared to those who had had at least some...
Noting that the majority of infants studied were not vitamin D deficient to begin with, the higher dose "provides no additional benefits forbonestrength or for parent-reported incidence of infections during the first two years of life."