EXCLUSIVE: Dr Peeyoosh Rankhamb REVEALS all that parents must do to ensure their kids get enough Vitamin D
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Vitamin D, that is a ‘Sunshine vitamin,’ is one of the vital nutrients that will allow one to maintain the proper functioning of the body. Lack of vitamin D can impact your metabolism, weight, and even how the other organs of your body tend to function. It is essential to make sure that your children get a daily dose of vitamin D. Children need Vitamin D for their bone and muscle health. Thus, see to it that your children get enough vitamin D from foods such as eggs, salmon, tuna, mackerel, soy milk, and orange juice. Also, getting enough sunlight is vital.
Vitamin D is required to maintain a good bone mineral density in your children. Not only this, but it is also needed for calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Did you know? Deficiency of this sunshine vitamin can lead to skeletal diseases, such as rickets and osteomalacia. To top it all, it invites a plethora of health problems such as metabolic syndromes, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and cardiovascular diseases, respiratory infections, food allergies, and asthma in later life. Nowadays, Vitamin D deficiency cases are rising in children at a rapid rate. These children with Vitamin D deficiencies can also suffer from fractures, aches, and pains. Not only children but even babies in the womb also need Vitamin D. If you are pregnant and are unable to get enough vitamin D while you are pregnant then your child will having e a higher chance of getting rickets in the later stage of his/her childhood. This risk can be zeroed down once the child is able to get enough vitamin D after he/she is born.
Know when Vitamin D deficiency occurs in children: If your children tend to spend their most of the time, indoors then they can be deficient in Vitamin D. If they keep their skin covered and even certain medications too can lead to Vitamin D deficiency.
This is what parents must do to ensure that their children get enough Vitamin D
About the author: Dr Peeyoosh Rankhamb is a Consultant, Pediatrics, Neonatology, Motherhood Hospital, Kharghar
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