Exerts are warning that children’s multivitamins on sale in Tesco, Boots and other major stores are “misleading” parents after research found that the vast majority fail to provide enough vitamin D. In fact, few multivitamin products for children actually supply the recommended dose of 400 IU a day of vitamin D, according to the results of a survey of 91 different products, which was published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient, which the body gets from sunlight and diet, and deficiencies in childhood can lead to rickets, a condition that causes bone malformations, weakness and stunted growth.
As a result, many parents opt for a multivitamin thinking they’ll be able to meet all their children’s needs.
However, “There is a wide range of both multivitamins and vitamin D supplements available for children in the UK, yet most of these do not provide the recommended 400IU/day,” the authors wrote in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
It was found that some supplements containing only vitamin D or labeled specifically ‘for healthy bones’ typically had higher vitamin D content.
While taking a vitamin D supplement may help with deficiencies, children and parents alike need to make sure that they maintain a healthy diet and spend more time outside in the natural sunlight.
By: Maytinee Kramer
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