Thursday, May 13, 2010

Vitamin D and Pregnancy

Vitamin D and pregnancy are a good combination. If you take vitamin D supplements during pregnancy safer for the mother and baby. It can prevent premature labor/births and infections.

Back in the 50s and 60s, people thought that vitamin D could cause birth defects. It now shows that vitamin D is important for maternal and infant health like bone health and immune function.

Recent studies show that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is a serious health issue.
Diet does not give enough vitamin D, and we probably do not go in the sun as much as we should.

They did a study of how much vitamin D a woman should take while pregnant without causing harm. The greatest effects were seen among women taking 4,000 IU of vitamin D per day. Therefore, the researchers recommend this daily regimen for all pregnant women.

2 comments:

  1. i think this is very interesting and useful to know. vitamin d never does any harm to take and its very easy to consume daily.

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  2. well of course vitamin d is good for you! thats why they tell you that its alright to go tanning, but then again it is also bad because it can cause cancer in the skin at the same time. But if there are pills that contain vitamin d then why not go for it and take them!

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