My baby is 7 months old. I often sunbathe for children but do not know if I need to add vitamin D?
Do not know what the typical symptoms are not that mother worried about the lack of vitamin D so. However, the mother's anxiety is very necessary because the wrong way to supplement vitamin D is harmful. If vitamin D deficiency children rickety, slow growth, poor resistance, also when vitamin D excess also cause children to eat anorexia, anorexia ...
The addition of vitamin D through "sunbathing" is indispensable because in addition to vitamin D, sunbathing also helps strengthen the resistance, sunshine also has certain effects in the removal of some bacteria should Having a good sunbath is better than having a baby in your home.
There is currently no recommendation to accurately measure sunbathing, as long as adequate amounts of vitamins are available for infants, as the amount of vitamin D synthesized depends on a number of factors. Age, skin area, sun exposure time, skin pigmentation of each child ... and geographic factors such as latitude, season, sunshine time and environmental pollution. Therefore, even if the baby sunbathing, you should also monitor the expression of the child. As soon as there are signs of calcium deficiency such as sweating theft, hair loss ring shape, anorexia nervously crying ... should take the child to the doctor to determine the degree of lack and properly added.