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Vitamin D- given too much

6 replies

RLB92 · 07/12/2024 21:12

I feel so anxious. I am sure that my health visitor told me to start giving my LO Vitamin D drops once she went under 600ml of formula a day. She has been taken round about 600ml or just under for the past two months, so I started giving her a a daily drop. I have just read on the NHS website that you are only supposed to give them once they go under 500ml. Will my baby be ok, or have I done any damage?

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Stirrednshaken · 07/12/2024 21:42

They'll be absolutely fine x

MumChp · 07/12/2024 22:12

No harm done.

fashionqueen0123 · 07/12/2024 22:13

They’ll just wee the extra out. Don’t worry

Bobbie12345 · 07/12/2024 22:15

Absolutely fine. Our bodies can handle extra vitamin d just fine.

GreyBlackBay · 07/12/2024 22:17

100% no issues. If you lived in a different country you'd be told different levels, they all have their own ideas and it's generally guesswork since you've no idea how much of it baby actually absorbs.

TheVeryHungryTortoise · 07/12/2024 22:25

They'll be fine, don't worry! Although, just to be pedantic the comment above about "just weeing it out" isn't actually true for fat soluble vitamins, so some people do indeed overdose on vitamin D supplements. But in your particular case OP, the levels would not be high enough to cause harm.

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