Vitamin D is important in keeping us healthy by regulating cell growth, maintaining body immunity, healthy musculoskeletal structure and functioning other various biological activities. Especially in infants and children, Vitamin D plays a vital role in the proper physical and mental growth and development and also in developing and maintaining immunity. Unfortunately, one child cannot receive enough vitamin D from dietary sources alone. Instead, like adults, children must rely on sunshine and supplements to maintain healthy vitamin D levels. Deficiency of Vitamin D is now a day’s been identified as the evidence of poor physical and mental health, low immunity and lifestyle disorder in children even after abundant sunlight. They fail to expose themselves to sunlight due to long school time, lack of physical activities and exercises.
The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency among infants and children in Bangladesh is very high and alarming which needs to explore the root cause. This video is to make our parents aware about the health risk of vitamin D deficiency in infants and children and what should we do to prevent such health risk?
