What should we know about Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is one of the important vitamins which determines children's organism homeostasis and bones health.

Its deficit in children under 36 months causes rackets, in elder children – osteomalacia.

Conditions caused with deficit of vitamin D:

• rackets;
• osteomalacia;
• osteoporosis;
• tumor;
• diabetes;
• cardiovascular diseases
• immunodeficiency
• autoimmune diseases
• neurological diseases; depression, dementia
• parkinsonism, disseminated sclerosis

Food rich in vitamin D:

• fatty species of oceanic fish
• milk and dairy
• eggs
• mushrooms
• vegetables have minimum content of vitamin D;

Prevention:

• exclusive breast-feeding
• breast-feeding up to 2 years
• timely start of additional feeding
• eating food rich in Ca and vitamin D
• exposure to the sun
• exception from ration of caffeine-containing (carbonated) drinks, as they wash out Ca from the bones.

For the diagnostic purpose, it is the best to determine status of vitamin D (vit. D 25 – hydroxyvitamin)

Our Clinic provides the laboratorial tests of high accuracy.

We wish you be healthy!