Maternal vitamin D status: Effect on milk vitamin D content and vitamin D status of breastfeeding infants
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There are increasing reports of rickets and vitamin D deficiency worldwide. Breastfeeding without adequate sunlight exposure and vitamin D supplementation are the major risk factors. In view of the drive to promote and increase the rate of exclusive breastfeeding, the relationship among maternal vitamin D status, vitamin D concentration of human milk, and hence vitamin D status of breastfeeding infants deserves reassessment. This review provides current information on the interrelationship between maternal vitamin D status and the vitamin D status of the breastfeeding infant. It also reviews the results of ongoing research on the effect of high-dose maternal vitamin D supplementation alone as a possible option to prevent vitamin D deficiency in the breastfeeding mother-infant dyad.
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Vitamin D content of human milk is low and usually insufficient to meet requirements in exclusively-breastfed infants if the infant's sunlight exposure is limited.
“Furthermore, vitamin D content of human milk is low and usually insufficient to meet requirements in exclusively-breastfed infants if the infant’s sunlight exposure is limited [72,76].”
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- Authors
- Dawodu, A., & Tsang, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dawodu, Adekunle
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- Dawodu, Adekunle
- Venue
- Advances in Nutrition
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 353-361
- ISSN
- 2156-5376 (ISSN-L)
- 2161-8313
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Vitamin D Research Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
- Keywords
- maternal vitamin D status, breast-fed infants, infant vitamin D status, vitamin D deficiency, rickets, maternal vitamin D supplementation, exclusive breastfeeding, sun exposure
- MeSH terms
- Breast Feeding, Female, Humans, Infant, Milk, Human, Nutritional Status, Pregnancy, Rickets, Vitamin D, Vitamin D Deficiency, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Dietary Supplements, Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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