The researchers found that vitamin D
deficiency in the mother affect the intellectual development of the child's
physicality.
According to a latest study by scientists in
Spain about the association between vitamin D levels in the blood of over 2,000
pregnant women and mental development of the child during the period from 1
year to 14 months age. The researchers found that vitamin D deficiency in the
mother can affect the intellectual development of a child's physical.
Vitamin
D deficiency during pregnancy
The differences in physical and mental
development scale seem not much different for each individual, but are very
important in a community, according to a review of the research team leader,
Dr. Eva Morales, medical epidemiology in Environmental Epidemiology Research
Center in Barcelona.
The low index in the test leads to lower IQ in
children. According to the previous studies, vitamin D deficiency during
pregnancy can affect the development of language in children from 5 to 10 years
From the relevance, experts also determine the
amount of vitamin D that pregnant women need supply. According to the Institute
of Medicine, an independent organization of the United States encouraged
pregnant women to supply 600 IU per day and no more than 4000 IU/day. And by
Endocrinology association, 600 UI is not enough to be added to the deficiency
and can be added to 1,500 UI-2000 UI per day.
According
to the Institute of Medicine, an independent organization of the United States encouraged
pregnant women to supply 600 IU per day and no more than 4000 IU/day.
Some scientific studies have reported a lack
of vitamin D during pregnancy may damage a child's immune system and increase
the risk of asthma, as well as a number of cardiovascular disease risk.
In addition to vitamin D, pregnant women
should sunbathe for about 10-15 minutes each day to enhance the absorption of
vitamin D despite having additional compensation from sources such as fish oil,
milk powder.
The study has found a link between vitamin D
deficiency during pregnancy and brain development in children, but there is no
consistency between the cause and effect. For further evidence of the
development of the brain and related to vitamin D levels, the researchers had
more further researches on children from 7-8 years of age when they begin to
learn to read and write. Medical Dr. Ruth Lawrence, director of the medical
nursing mother center of the Medical University of Rochester in New York says
that even vitamin D in breast milk and infant formula milk along with
cholesterol and taurine can affect the brain development of children even after
birth.
Pregnant
women taking vitamin D can reduce the risk of pregnancy-related diabetes and
hypertension.
Vitamin D may have additional benefits for
women who going to be mother. Other studies were conducted by Hollis and his
team found that pregnant women taking vitamin D can reduce the risk of
pregnancy-related diabetes and hypertension.
Initial studies showed that high level of
vitamin D can lead to birth defects is not true, said Hollis. Women can get up
to 50,000 units a day before worrying about having too much vitamin D, Hollis says.
Too much vitamin D can lead to spikes in blood levels of calcium, which can, in
turn, lead to kidney and nerve damage and abnormal heart rhythms.
