Why does the baby take vitamin D?

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Vitamin is very important to maintain human health. It can not only prevent a variety of diseases, but also bring a glimmer of hope to delay aging. As a nutrition guard, vitamin is one of the six nutrients in human body, and it is also an essential organic substance for baby's health, growth, reproduction and life. Why does the baby take vitamin D? Let's talk about it

Why does the baby take vitamin D?

The main function of vitamin D is to promote the absorption of calcium. I don't need to emphasize the importance of calcium nutrition. As a "big country with calcium deficiency", the importance of calcium has been overestimated: all the dissatisfaction of infants to adults can be attributed to "calcium deficiency". In fact, the calcium intake of infants is usually not a problem, because they take milk as their staple food, which is the least likely group of all people to have insufficient calcium intake.

But babies who lack vitamin D are likely to lack vitamin D, especially those who are exclusively breastfed. One is that there is very little vitamin D in breast milk; Second, before adding complementary food, the baby can not eat other high VD food. Third, because the baby will go before most of the indoor care, there is little chance to sun, let the skin synthesis VD.

Compared with breast milk, formula is artificially supplemented with vitamin D, so the risk of vitamin D deficiency in formula fed babies is much lower. However, if the daily intake of formula milk is less than 1 liter, it is still possible that the intake of vitamin D is insufficient.

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We need to supplement vitamin D mainly in marine fish, animal liver, egg yolk and lean meat. In addition, such as skimmed milk, cod liver oil, cheese, nuts and seafood, fortified foods with vitamin D are also rich in vitamin D. However, plant food almost does not contain vitamin D, vitamin D mainly comes from animal food.