title: Clinical inquiry. What is the best age to start vitamin D supplementation to prevent rickets in breastfed newborns? Breastfed infants who take vitamin D beginning at 3 to 5 days of life don’t develop rickets.
authors: University of Washington Family Medicine Residency, Seattle, WA, USA.
authors: Eleanor
authors: E
authors: Bly
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Huntington
authors: Amy L
authors: AL
authors: Harper
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001942:Breast Feeding; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012279:Rickets / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014815:Vitamins / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014815:Vitamins; D014807:Vitamin D