Vitamin D - she really p?$$ed me off!!

[heymissy]

I took my dd to a local baby massage group recently and a nutritionist dropped by to talk to talk to and advise the mums. Amongst other things she said all black and asian children have to take extra vitamins due to a reappearance of Rickkets. As the only black mother there this was directed at me. I asked why only black and asian children?, she claimed they were prone to vitamin d deficiency. I asked why is this only the case for black and asian children? She brought the vitamin d crap up again. Quite rightly a few white mothers of mixed race children asked if thier children should also take vitamin d, she claimed there was no need because the vitamin d reserves of white women were high enough to ensure their mixed race children would not be deficient!! She may not have been sitting closely enough to notice that my dd is also mixed race. I was not sure if her wild claims included those from south east asian countries - dp is vietnamese. I was seething too much to pursue this any further, but it has p?$$ed me off. I am a researcher and will at least back up wild claims I might make with concrete facts. Has anyone heard this before, is there any sense to it and what do you think?

[ancientgran]

My first baby is now almost 50 but back then you were recommended to give all babies vitamin drops which if I remember were vitamins A B C and D.
I thought everyone was supposed to be vitamin D deficient in UK winter.

[londonscalling]

It's true! Black children, in the UK, should take Vitamin D supplements. They need more Vitamin D and can get rickets etc without enough. My sister was told by the doctor that she needs to get her children's arms and legs out in the sun!