Prevention of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency in Infants, Children, and Adolescents; I share as it applies to COVID...These revised guidelines for vitamin D intake for healthy infants, children....

by Paul Alexander

Giving 400 IU of vitamin D per day in the pediatric and adolescent population.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/122/5/1142/71470/Prevention-of-Rickets-and-Vitamin-D-Deficiency-in

These revised guidelines for vitamin D intake for healthy infants, children, and adolescents are based on evidence from new clinical trials and the historical precedence of safely giving 400 IU of vitamin D per day in the pediatric and adolescent population. New evidence supports a potential role for vitamin D in maintaining innate immunity and preventing diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

Vitamin D has a crucial role in optimal innate immunity function…