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National Desk | April 7, 2003, Monday
Vitamin D Is Urged for Breast-Fed Babies

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Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 14 , Column 3

ABSTRACT - American Academy of Pediatrics says infants who are breast-fed exclusively should receive vitamin D supplements to prevent rickets (S) The American Academy of Pediatrics says infants who are breast-fed exclusively should receive vitamin D supplements to prevent rickets, a bone-weakening disease that doctors say may be increasing.

Breast-fed infants should receive vitamin supplements beginning at two months and continuing until they begin daily feedings of least 17 ounces of milk fortified with vitamin D, the academy said in a policy statement to be published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics.



 

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