What is vitamin D used for and why is it so important for babies and children?
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La vitamin D it is a fundamental substance to fix calcium and therefore for bone health. In the first instance, this is the answer to mothers' questions about why it is so important to give this type of vitamin to their children from birth.
Vitamin D, in fact, falls into that group of nutrients that support bone growth and health: the assumption is precisely that it is very important to have good doses of vitamin D in the growth phase because it is precisely in this period that the foundations are laid for a correct bone mineralization, with consequences and repercussions in adulthood (if deficient it can lead to rickets and osteomalacia).
The function of vitamin D in infants and children, therefore, is above all to promote an excellent development of bone. It helps to synthesize those enzymes present in the mucous membranes responsible for the active transport of available calcium and is necessary for the bones and teeth of the smallest to calcify well.
HOW TO TAKE VITAMIN D
Vitamin D is one fat-soluble vitamin, so it can be assimilated both with ingestion and withexposure to sunlight. Vitamin D is found in many food sources such as fish, eggs, some added milks and cod liver oil. Generally, at the time of discharge from the hospital, the newborn is prescribed an ispecific supplement, to be taken for at least the first three months of life. It is therefore important that children consume foods rich in calcium: not only milk and dairy products (about which there are several doubts about the effective ability of our body to use that calcium), but also many plant foods such as almonds or sesame seeds.
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Furthermore, it is now known that regular exposure to sunlight would be sufficient, even about 10 minutes a day, to allow our body to produce the vitamin D necessary for its proper functioning.
Never forget, then, to get your puppies to exercise and ensure they have a healthy lifestyle. Overweight and obesity are enemies (also) of vitamin D which, being fat-soluble, remains "stuck" in fat deposits, failing to reach the organs that need it
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE VITAMIN D IS LACK
Il rickets andosteomalacia are the classic diseases of vitamin D deficiency, in children the deficiency causes rickets which evolves into skeletal deformities. To remedy, it is good that already during pregnancy and then during breastfeeding women maintain adequate levels of vitamin D to protect the baby.
Germana Carillo
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