STUDIES ON EXPERIMENTAL RICKETS
- 1 February 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in American Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 33 (2) , 230-243
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1927.04130140050007
Abstract
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 andKeywords
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