Vitamin D supplementation: are multivitamins sufficient?
Vitamin D supplementation: are multivitamins sufficient?
Background: Public Health England advises 400 IU/day vitamin D supplementation for children over 1 year. Commercially available children’s multivitamin and vitamin D supplements were surveyed to determine the vitamin D content.
Methods: multivitamins and vitamin D supplements marketed at children <12 years and sold by nine UK supermarkets and health supplement retailers were surveyed. Vitamin D content was determined from manufacturer’s websites and product packaging.
Results: 67 multivitamins were surveyed, containing 0–800 IU/day vitamin D. Only 25%–36%, depending on the child’s age, provided ≥400 IU/day vitamin D. Supplements containing only vitamin D or labelled as for ‘healthy bones’ typically had higher vitamin D content (57%–67% contained ≥400 IU/day).
Conclusions: few multivitamin products supply the recommended 400 IU/day vitamin D. Clinicians need to be aware of this when recommending vitamin D supplementation and advise parents/carers to choose a product that contains ≥400 IU/day vitamin D.
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Curtis, Elizabeth
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Cooper, Cyrus
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Harvey, Nicholas
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Moon, Rebecca, Curtis, Elizabeth, Cooper, Cyrus, Davies, Justin and Harvey, Nicholas
(2019)
Vitamin D supplementation: are multivitamins sufficient?
Archives of Disease in Childhood.
(doi:10.1136/archdischild-2018-316339).
Abstract
Background: Public Health England advises 400 IU/day vitamin D supplementation for children over 1 year. Commercially available children’s multivitamin and vitamin D supplements were surveyed to determine the vitamin D content.
Methods: multivitamins and vitamin D supplements marketed at children <12 years and sold by nine UK supermarkets and health supplement retailers were surveyed. Vitamin D content was determined from manufacturer’s websites and product packaging.
Results: 67 multivitamins were surveyed, containing 0–800 IU/day vitamin D. Only 25%–36%, depending on the child’s age, provided ≥400 IU/day vitamin D. Supplements containing only vitamin D or labelled as for ‘healthy bones’ typically had higher vitamin D content (57%–67% contained ≥400 IU/day).
Conclusions: few multivitamin products supply the recommended 400 IU/day vitamin D. Clinicians need to be aware of this when recommending vitamin D supplementation and advise parents/carers to choose a product that contains ≥400 IU/day vitamin D.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 November 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 25 February 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428633
ISSN: 0003-9888
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