Vitamin D Potency of Human Breast Milk
- 1 July 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
- Vol. 29 (7) , 744-747
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.29.7.744
Abstract
A composite sample of 15 gallons of human breast milk contained only 4 USP XI units of vit. D per quart. The antirachitic superiority of human milk over cows'' milk cannot therefore be attributed solely to the amount of vit. D present.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Antirachitic Potency of the Milk of Human Mothers Fed Previously on Vitamin D Milk of the CowNew England Journal of Medicine, 1933
- Experimental Study of the Antirachitic Factor in Human and Animal MilksArchives of Disease in Childhood, 1932
- ANTIRACHITIC PROPERTIES DEVELOPED IN HUMAN MILK BY IRRADIATING THE MOTHERJAMA, 1927
- The anti-rachitic properties of breast milk.Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1925