Babies May Have Vitamin D Deficiency

According to an interesting article in titled Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies on the NY Times.com web site mothers need to watch for Vitamin D Deficiency with babies who are being breastfeed;

Some experts fear that vitamin D deficiency, which can be asymptomatic, may be more common than pediatricians realize and that rickets — perceived to be a 19th-century scourge that was wiped out with the fortification of milk — may be going undetected.

Physicians have known for more than a century that exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, and that the condition is easily prevented and treated with inexpensive vitamin drops or cod liver oil. But doctors are reluctant to say anything that might discourage breast-feeding.