American Academy of Pediatrics, The Institute of Medicine of National Academics, The Drug and Therapeutics Committee of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, the Canadian Pediatric Society and European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology recommend that 400IU of vitamin D should be supplemented in all infants starting from within a few days of birth throughout childhood. Various national authorities recommend different doses of vitamin D for supplementation. Moreover most of them report variable outcomes with no unanimous outcome with respect to optimum dose and duration of supplementation of vitamin D. However supplementation studies are limited and predominantly from foreign countries. Vitamin D supplementation is necessary as vitamin D is required not only for prevention of rickets as traditionally thought, but also for its emerging role in development of diseases such as myopathic disorders, proneness to infection, autoimmune disorders and cancers.

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