The NHS are pushing Healthy Start vitamins for babies, mums, women in
general.
> http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/en/fe/page.asp?n1=1&n2=5&n3=27&n4=93
They have asked pharmacy to stock them for scripts and to sell.
(Pharmacy would sell them for more than the clinic - so I don't see the
point)
A local surgery is prescribing the stuff.
Wholesalers haven't got any -
manufacturers say demand is too low to make any - but the situation
should be resolved real soon.
Jeff
Mary Hawking wrote:
> Isn't there a recommendation for all breast-fed babies to receive abidec
> drops?
> And is there any data from the time when all babies and children
> received supplements?
>
>
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, Andy Lee
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>> Neither but I'm aware there is increasing research interest in the
>> topic. There is known to be likelihood of low vitamin D status in
>> pregnant women and consequently in their babies, especially entirely
>> breastfed ones. Low vitamin D status has been linked to development of
>> various non-bone chronic conditions including diabetes,
>> cardiovascular, autoimmune and cancer disease so there is interest in
>> the hypothesis that supplementation might reduce the incidence of
>> these as well as of the bone diseases that links are already better
>> established for. There doesn't appear to be an evidence base yet for
>> adoption of routine supplementation though. The benefits and risks are
>> not established.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Jel Coward <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Saturday, 21 March, 2009 12:06:29 AM
>> Subject: Vit D for babies
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> is Vit D given routinely to infants in the UK? What about to pregnant
> women?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- Jel
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>> http://OSCARcanada.org
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