Study: Pregnant women should get more vitamin D

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Pregnant women could — and probably should — consume 10 times more vitamin D than experts currently recommend, according to a new study.

Current guidelines for daily vitamin D intake during pregnancy range from 200 international units (IU) per day to 400 IU, the amount found in most prenatal vitamins. For decades, doctors have worried that too much vitamin D during pregnancy could cause birth defects, and under current guidelines anything over 2,000 IU per day is still considered potentially unsafe for anyone, not just pregnant women.http://worldvitaminsonline.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/study-pregnant-women-should-get-more-vitamin-d/

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If they were wrong about vitamin D, isn't it possible they are wrong about vitamin A, and isn't it possible that overloading of vitamin D in the absence of vitamin A can cause a disaster.

 

Vitamin D is always found closely associated with vitamin A, and I fear that the single-minded focus on either in exclusion of the other is flirting with danger. There is a worldwide vitamin A deficiency in greater excess than that of vitamin D. Check Vitamin Angels and the Peace Corps on this.

 

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World Vitamins Online <jbradstr Study: Pregnant women should get more vitamin D Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 9:58 AM

 

 

Pregnant women could — and probably should — consume 10 times more vitamin D than experts currently recommend, according to a new study.

Current guidelines for daily vitamin D intake during pregnancy range from 200 international units (IU) per day to 400 IU, the amount found in most prenatal vitamins. For decades, doctors have worried that too much vitamin D during pregnancy could cause birth defects, and under current guidelines anything over 2,000 IU per day is still considered potentially unsafe for anyone, not just pregnant women.http://worldvitaminsonline.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/study-pregnant-women-should-get-more-vitamin-d/