At 06:52 AM 6/3/03, you wrote:
>Chris has mentioned an article she has written regarding vitamin D and
>breastfed babies. Mead Johnson has been distributing its vitamin D
>preparation here
>in the US for many years. NABA picked this up in its code monitoring project
>in the summer of 2000. Mead Johnson's commercial discharge bags had
>coupons for
>vitamin D for breastfed babies because breast milk "did not have sufficient
>amounts" and needed to be supplemented! These coupons and marketing predated
>the AAP's endorsement of vitamin D supplementation. Mead Johnson knew this
>vitamin D recommendation was coming so they were prepared to make sure
>that breast
>milk was once again seen as deficient. I have yet to see any documentation or
>evidence that brief sunlight exposure for infants causes skin cancer.

But *is* there a vitamin D preparation without A and C in the US?

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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