Vitamin D supplementation: Recommendations for Canadian mothers and infants

Vitamin Deficiency is become very common luck among adults and children in Canada especially aboriginal people, who lives in Arctic area, which is luck of sun for such years.

The research suggested that growing evidence that the lack of vitamin D sufficiency may be involved in a variety of systemic diseases.

“As more and more evidence of the relationship between the level of vitamin D in diseases such as osteoporosis, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and neuromuscular disorders emerges, it is predicted that treatment with physiological doses of vitamin D3 (between 4000 IU/day to 10,000 IU/day from all sources, including sun, food and supplements) with periodic monitoring of blood 25(OH)D (calcidiol) levels and calcium levels will become routine to maintain 25(OH)D levels of 75 to 150 nmol/L” (57).

In addition, vitamin D deficiency is also common among pregnant women. According to the research Consideration should be given to administering 2000 IU of vitamin D daily to pregnant and lactating women, especially during the winter months, to maintain vitamin D sufficiency.

 Finally children are higher risk of  vitamin D deficiency and they may need to take higher dose than others, therefore research should be encouraged on vitamin D requirements for toddlers and older children.

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