Kids vitamins - which ones do you use?

murphydog999

Unless prescribed by your doctor, or medical practitioner i.e. dietician, taking vitamins is not to be taken lightly. Over prescribing can be quite dangerous in adults as well as children.

The pharmaceutical companies that produce these things have bigger marketing budgets than you or I can ever comprehend, and they have made billions from drip-feeding us with insecurities about our over-processed diets and over-producing, nutrient deficient soil. Questionable studies are pushed out into the media about how supplements work miracles - studies they pay for themselves if you read the small print.

Manufactured vitamins will never be anywhere near as effective as natural i.e. from food, the body does not absorb them in the same way. There is plenty of evidence of how this scaremongering has made these big companies very rich, books, internet; please do your research, and have your, or your child's, diet assessed before contemplating spending your hard earned cash on something that may even damage your health.

As a note on this, of all the people (clients) I have assessed, most are always low on Vitamin D, which if we had decent weather i.e. sunshine, on a daily basis, wouldn't be a problem. Vit D works with calcium and magnesium and amongst other things, builds strong bones, so it is important for all of us, especially kids and menopausal ladies. Make sure you get enough of some of the following, low-fat milk, eggs, oily fish, broccoli, white beans, ricotta and mozzarella cheese - and sunshine (when it's out!!) on arms and legs.

sveika

I give our 3 year old haliborange omega 3 and the new born baby D-vi-sol vitamin D drops. Sadly vitamin d drops for infants are very difficult to find in the UK and we have to buy it from US. Actually the American paediatric society recommend every breastfed baby should take vitamin D supplement.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi all

A great thread. Just a little reminder, if you are concerned about your child's health in any way while it's great to get others' views from the forum it's always worth talking to a health professional.

Andrea

Mojisola

murphydog999 wrote: »

As a note on this, of all the people (clients) I have assessed, most are always low on Vitamin D, which if we had decent weather i.e. sunshine, on a daily basis, wouldn't be a problem. Vit D works with calcium and magnesium and amongst other things, builds strong bones, so it is important for all of us, especially kids and menopausal ladies. Make sure you get enough of some of the following, low-fat milk, eggs, oily fish, broccoli, white beans, ricotta and mozzarella cheese - and sunshine (when it's out!!) on arms and legs.

As vitamin d is a fat soluble vitamin, advocating low-fat milk as a source is a bit strange, especially as even full-fat milk only has trace amounts in it.