On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 10:16 Australia/Perth, Pat Young wrote:

> Years ago I remember Mary White from LLLI explaining that a baby only
> needs
> about 15 minutes of sunlight per day on an exposed square inch of
> cheek to
> get enough vit D.  Maybe moms need to know that 15 min or so of sun is
> OK
> and then apply the sun screen!

Ten to twenty minutes of sunlight here[1] can burn a child severely.
Several sunburns causes the risk of malignant melanoma to double or
triple. Has anyone here read a case report or case series of
D-deficiency rickets occurring in breastfed fair children living in a
sunny clime? Is this a situation of absurd overgeneralisation - from
winter-confined Northern dark skinned families, to everyone,
everywhere? The "Rickets on the Rise in North America" reports that I
have read have all stated that the problem was virtually confined to
African-American infants and/or those in the far north.

Lara

[1] Perth, Western Australia

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