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Accidentally gave to much vitamin d?!

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IrisRoon · 15/11/2024 14:13

Hi everyone, my EBF 11 week old has been having vitamin d drops from birth. The dose is two drops a day, 2.5ug per drop. I accidentally gave 3 just there. So she got 7.5ug instead of 5ug.

The extra drop came out before I even had a chance to react. I thought It'd be fine but I googled it and discovered vitamin d toxicity, I'm a very anxious FTM will baby be okay?

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Applesandpears23 · 15/11/2024 14:14

They will be fine. If you are worried just skip tomorrow’s dose or give half.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 15/11/2024 14:14

It will be absolutely fine.

pbdr · 15/11/2024 14:16

The therapeutic range for vitamin D is huge, you'd need to give much, much more than that for there to be any risk at all. Besides, the NHS recommended dose from birth to 1 year is 8.5-10ug/day so you've still given less than the recommended dose.

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IrisRoon · 15/11/2024 14:24

pbdr · 15/11/2024 14:16

The therapeutic range for vitamin D is huge, you'd need to give much, much more than that for there to be any risk at all. Besides, the NHS recommended dose from birth to 1 year is 8.5-10ug/day so you've still given less than the recommended dose.

Very helpful info with the recommended dose, I didn't know that! Thank you for easing my worries :)

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IrisRoon · 15/11/2024 14:29

pbdr · 15/11/2024 14:16

The therapeutic range for vitamin D is huge, you'd need to give much, much more than that for there to be any risk at all. Besides, the NHS recommended dose from birth to 1 year is 8.5-10ug/day so you've still given less than the recommended dose.

Follow up question if it's okay, so I should be giving her 8.5-10ug a day? I know the NHS does say it but the bottle I got only said 5ug so am a bit confused haha. Now I'm worried I've been underdosing her this whole time, I don't know what it feels like to not worry about everything with her. I'm sure that's normal but damn it's exhausting.

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pbdr · 15/11/2024 19:06

I'd go with the NHS guideline dose as it's actually a pretty conservative dose. A baby on 960ml of formula daily would be getting closer to 20ug daily. There is very little vitamin D in breast milk unless you are taking extremely high doses yourself

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26675779/

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IrisRoon · 15/11/2024 19:12

pbdr · 15/11/2024 19:06

I'd go with the NHS guideline dose as it's actually a pretty conservative dose. A baby on 960ml of formula daily would be getting closer to 20ug daily. There is very little vitamin D in breast milk unless you are taking extremely high doses yourself

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26675779/

Thanks so much for your help!

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