
Vitamin D
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Vitamin D for infants, children and young people - guidance
Vitamin D helps the development of healthy, strong bones and to prevent rickets. RCPCH reiterates the importance of babies and children taking supplementation.
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Few multivitamins contain recommended dose of Vitamin D, reveals new study
25 February 2019
RCPCH responds to new study, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, which reveals of the multivitamins surveyed, doses ranged from 0 to 800 IU.
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Daily doses of vitamin D important for child health say doctors
5 October 2018
Vitamin D helps in the development of healthy, strong bones and to prevent rickets. RCPCH reiterates the importance of babies and children taking supplementation.
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BPSU study - Nutritional rickets
Surveillance of nutritional rickets presenting to secondary care in children and young people concluded in March 2017. The study team hoped to ascertain the incidence of nutritional rickets and presentational features of the condition.
The study group has now published its findings in the Archiv...
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Subject archives guide - Rickets
Our subject archive guides on a range of child health topics are for researchers interested in child health and the history of paediatrics. This guide is on rickets, a condition that affects bone development.