Symptoms of VD poisoning in infants?

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After the birth of the baby, novice mothers have a lot of step-by-step "work", to supplement vitamin D to the baby is one of them. But there are also many novice mothers worried: every day to the child will not cause vitamin D poisoning? Symptoms of VD poisoning in infants? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of VD poisoning in infants?

Nowadays, many new mothers, especially those in cities, are always afraid that their children will overdose their supplements and even reject vitamin D because they are exposed to a wide range of information. When many small outpatients who are several months old come to the clinic, they see that they have small pillow baldness and small prescription. They ask their parents if they have taken vitamin D supplements. Some say they have not, and some say they have only started taking vitamin D supplements since they are four or five months old.

The cause of rickets in children is lack of vitamin D that can promote calcium absorption. The vitamin D that infants take from mother and natural food can not meet their development needs. The source of increasing vitamin D is in addition to more sun exposure to promote the conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol stored in the skin into vitamin D3.

Oral vitamin D is also an important method. Normal term infants (37 weeks old, body weight at birth of 2500 grams) should start from the second half of the month after birth, and supplement vitamin D400 units every day until the age of 2 years, which will not cause vitamin D poisoning.

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In spring and summer, the sun is bright and the temperature is high. New mothers can take their children out to bask in the sun. They don't need to supplement vitamin D every day, but they can be intermittent and can't be cut off for a long time. In the cold season, the sun less, should adhere to every day or every other day to supplement vitamin D.