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XXVIII. DOES VITAMIN D PASS INTO THE MILK?

E. V. McCOLLUM, PH.D., Sc.D.; NINA SIMMONDS, SC.D.; J. ERNESTINE BECKER, B.S.; P. G. SHIPLEY, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1927;33(2):230-243.

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The numerous studies on the dietary properties of milk have established the fact that vitamins A, B and C, when present in the diet of the lactating female, pass readily into the milk. The frequent development of rickets in breast-fed infants and its almost universal occurrence in artificially fed infants are evidence that milk ordinarily does not contain sufficient vitamin D to afford appreciable protection against this disease. This fact has no significance in determining whether or not it is capable of passing into the milk if provided in the diet, since all ordinary foods are essentially lacking in this vitamin. Some experimental data have been published which are interpreted to mean that milk secreted when cod liver oil has been administered does not contain effective amounts of vitamin D.

Korenchevsky and Carr¹ and Korenchevsky² have reported studies on the influence of the mother's diet during pregnancy and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Department of Chemical Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Oct. 1, 1926.

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