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Multi vitamin for teens
myonlysunshine
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Just wondering if anyone could recommend a good multivitamin for a teenage boy, preferably one that deals with hormones 🙄😂! Hope this isn't classed as asking for medical advice btw, thanks in advance 😊
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If you eat a decent diet, he should get all the vitamins he needs from the food you're having.
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If you eat a decent diet, he should get all the vitamins he needs from the food you're having.
http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1122.aspx?categoryid=51
He has absorption issues so the doc advised getting a good multivitamin 😊Second purse £34.75/£50.00
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Frome experience you have a better chance of them regularly being taken if you go for palatable orange flavoured chewy ones.
This sort of thing but there is quite a choice
https://www.bassettsvitamins.co.uk/bassetts-vitamins/multivitamins-orange-passion-flavour0 -
Lifeplan are a good make
https://www.healthyuk.com/lifeplan-multivitamins-60-tablets
You can also get liquid multivits, which are easier to take, but seem to be more expensive
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Unfortunately, most teenagers don't eat all kinds of food that contain the recommended daily vitamins. My teenage son was prescribed Supradyn . Taking multivitamins may not seem to be an ideal way to get the minerals and vitamins, but it's much cheaper than buying many separate supplements.0
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myonlysunshine wrote: »He has absorption issues so the doc advised getting a good multivitamin 😊
Not giving medical advice but if there is absorption issues, it may make zero difference how much they ingest - surely the GP should be getting to the bottom of WHY he has these issues. I suggest you go back to your GP to investigate it and don't take no for an answer as this may be nothing or something sinister.0 -
DomRavioli wrote: »Not giving medical advice but if there is absorption issues, it may make zero difference how much they ingest - surely the GP should be getting to the bottom of WHY he has these issues. I suggest you go back to your GP to investigate it and don't take no for an answer as this may be nothing or something sinister.
I agree and ask for a referral, if the GP can't help.
As a baby, my granddaughter had absorption problems and medics took the problem very seriously.0 -
Just go for the ones that have the most vitamins and minerals and the most of them!0
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