Multivitamins and Vitamin D

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Does anyone know why, despite the NHS advice that ‘children aged 1 to 4 years old should be given a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D’, and ‘everyone...should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D during the autumn and winter’, so many of the vitamins you can buy only contain 2.5 or 5 micrograms of Vitamin D? Many of them say to take one a day, so this just wouldn’t be enough. Boots make a gummy multivitamin with the full 10 micrograms in, so it’s obviously possible. I’m trying to prepare the DC’s immune systems for the return to school/nursery and it’s something I’ve noticed with a lot of them.

Because the companies that make the vitamins are not bound by NHS advice and can do what suits them.

Those companies are not responsible for what you need. If they don’t offer what you need, then get something else.

The nurser practitioner that helped me with my nutritional deficiencies was pretty blunt that the vast majority multivitamins (which I'd been advised to take before by GPs) are just not enough for Vit. D and to not bother with them. I'm on a much higher dose I'd never get in a multivitamin. I'd guess that Vit. D is more expensive to put in so they just want enough to put it on the label.

They also tend to load them with far more Vit. B, even the ones which really shouldn't be taken at megadoses without medical supervision. I've seen a lot that have warning labels about prolonged use which doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Get a separate Vitamin D spray. Places like Boots and Holland and Barrett sell them.
One spray a day is all you need and it can be used alongside a multivitamin.
You can get different strengths - 1000, 2000, 5000 etc.

Wellkid vits for kids also have 200% recommended daily amount 10ųg I think. They are the only ones dd2 will take. Think I have seen a change in bassets chewys teen vits (I'm sure they used to only have 5ųg but the new boxes i have in for dd1 have 10ųg in.

The adult ones we have only have 5ųg so we also take a separate vit d (25ųg) on top.

I do get something else, I just don’t think it’s right for them to sell a product that provides a quarter of a vitamin that is recommended. There must be some parents that assume they’re giving the advised amount, but they aren’t - the Boots ones do have a label that says ‘contains U.K. recommended level’ on them which is what made me aware some of them might not be. I do have some Vitamin D drops as well which is 10 micrograms per drop, but say you gave your toddler a gummy that had 2.5 micrograms, you might not want to give a drop as well, as you don’t want to give too much.

I hadn’t realised that about Vit B BiBabbles, I’ll have to check mine!