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Article #191: Children Multivitamins - Is IT a Bad Thing

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That children are eating a healthy diet It can cause serious health problems and
is most parents' belief and if not they is almost always a fatal disease. A very
throw their hand up in the air and give important part of your child's diet is
up. They then tend to give their children calcium which helps them to build strong
multivitamins. This is not a bad thing bones and muscles. Calcium is a mineral.
however, many children think vitamins are Children can get enough calcium from
candy, especially now that they come in their diets if they eat yogurt, cheese,
gum balls, gummi shapes, and cute animal and ice cream or if they drink milk.
and cartoon characters. There are some who are allergic to dairy
This is a very serious issue because if products or who don't like them. Some do
they are within children's reach they not like dairy products, still others are
could be 'sneaking' them without you allergic to them. You can help these
knowing it. Call Poison Control children get their needs met by giving
immediately and get your child to an them calcium fortified juices, cereals
emergency room immediately, if you even and vitamins.
think your child may have taken too many. Children for the most part get enough
The result of an overdose of fluoride from drinking fluoride treated
multivitamins with iron could make your water or bottled water with fluoride, and
child very seriously ill or worse. or toothpaste. Check with your doctor
It is absolutely crucial that any and all before giving any fluoride supplement to
manner of medications be kept out of the your child. Fluoride in excess could
reach of children. Children get most of permanently stain your child's teeth.
their vitamins from their diets but if The purpose of treating water and using
you think they need them, generic toothpaste with fluoride to protect your
multivitamins are fine. Calcium must be child's teeth, is defeated. Multivitamins
gotten from other sources which benefits meant for infants are typically available
your child if they have special needs in liquid form and given with an
such as allergies to dairy foods or a eyedropper. These drops contain vitamins
strong dislike for them. A, C, and D and my have added iron. Other
Get advice from your child's vitamins and minerals may be in the drops
pediatrician. Do not give your child more such as riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin
than one vitamin daily even is your B-12.
child's diet has been bad one week. An Children's vitamins also come in chewable
excess of any one vitamin could block the forms and in the shapes of cartoon
absorption of others in the body. If your characters or animals. Gumball and gummi
child gets too much calcium for example, candy vitamins are now available. If you
it could prevent vitamins such as iron child gives you difficulty in taking
from being absorbed. vitamins, try giving them his favorite
Because many children will not make great character or in gumball form. Always
choices you can expect to be giving your supervise your child when he takes
child vitamins well into their teens. vitamins.
Know before buying vitamins that there Personally, I myself give my son his
are varying opinions about vitamins with vitamins rather than allowing him to do
iron for children. You should be giving it on his own. He either might not take
vitamins with iron which is one school of it or he might take too many. Too much of
thought. a good thing can be fatal but vitamins
Under no circumstance says another school for children can be good thing. They
of thought, should vitamins with iron be should be kept out of children's reach.
given to children. My own child, in Like a lot of children yours might not
infancy showed signs of low iron in always eat what is right and giving him
infancy. Always check with your doctor vitamins might offset some of that.
but my child's doctor put him on iron Check with your pediatrician before
fortified vitamins and he is very healthy making adjustments to your child's diet,
now. it's always best to err on the side of
Hemochromatosis is a disease that is caution. Fun vitamin shapes are fine but
caused by too much iron in the blood. The your child could think they are 'candy';
iron is not washed out of the body easily they should be kept out of the reach or
and the body is unable to use the iron. locked away in a cabinet.






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