In einer eMail vom 31-3-2003 5:00:36 West-Europa (zomertijd) schreibt
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> 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, I like to explain it to parents as: daily modest exposure to daylight
on the skin (may be shadow!) of face and hands for a breastfed child *living
in a geografical area to which it genetically belongs* will not need extra
vit. D. So coloured people in for instance northwestEurope or white people in
equatorial Africa will need extra's because their skin is not ''tooled up''
for that kind of sun.

Warmly greeting,

Gonneke

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Gonneke  van Veldhuizen
IBCLC,LLLL, MOM, primairyschool teacher

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centre for breastfeeding information and education
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