On 04/08/2004, at 5:17, Denny Rice wrote:

> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/483439
>
> This article reports that even babies in very sunny locales can get
> breastmilk vit D deficency.  It is a case of 1!

This interpretation of the Anatoliataki paper is bizarre in the
extreme. I pulled the full-text article, a case report of a 50 day old
baby with congenital rickets.

Of particular note are the following excerpts:

"Inadequate vitamin D intake after birth was unlikely to be the cause
of rickets in our case, as the condition developed in early infancy and
the baby had been exclusively fed with a fortified formula, that
contained adequate amounts of calcium and vitamin D. "

"[The mother's] dietary intake of vitamin D during pregnancy was
estimated at approximately 200 IU/d. This amount is lower than the
recommended intake during pregnancy (11). Moreover, the mother did not
receive vitamin D supplements and was not adequately exposed to
sunlight (especially during the second and third trimester of her
pregnancy) because of prolonged work in an indoor environment in the
winter months."

How on earth did this poor baby get twisted into a poster child for
"breastmilk rickets"?

Lara

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