Comments for Is breastfeeding the cause of my Vitamin D deficiency?

Breastfeeding is NOT the cause...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Momma,

I hate to inform you that breastfeeding is NOT the cause of your vitamin d deficiency because unless you were sunbathing and were tanned and bronzed most of the time that your were breastfeeding OR you were taking a MINIMUM of 7000 IU's of Vitamin D per day, then your breast milk had ZERO vitamin D in it.

There have been many studies done on this. Please see my page on Vitamin D and Breastfeeding where I go over this extensively.

Long term effects of Vitamin D continued...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

The Case Against Ergocalciferol

The next is:

The Use of Vitamin D in Clinical Practice

These are both comprehensive 'Metanalyses' of the available data on vitamin d- and both are intended for the education of doctors- so you would be doing him (and others) a BIG favor if you printed a SECOND copy to give to your doctor so that they can know more about vitamin d too!!

As far as preventing the long term effects of vitamin d deficiency, you can't go back in time, so the only thing that you can do is to know the research and get your levels up to the research recommmended 'Optimal' Vitamin D Levels for the rest of your life (and for your baby's life)!!

Hope that this helped and 'GOOD LUCK' talking to your doctor. I've been talking to docs for 15 years and once I started learning about these issues, they just simply refused to listen to anything that I had to say. Even if I HAD research, it wasn't the RIGHT research from the right source or done in the right way... And no logic of "Doctor, but there are 5000 research studies on this subject, why are you ignoring this?" - would get them to look at this evidence. They have not been told by the AMA to use Vitamin D3 in doses of 100,000 a week, so they are just simply not going to!

So, that was when I had to stop being a nurse... But I hope that you have better luck than me!

Kerri Knox RN Immune Health Queen

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com

Breast feeding and vitamin d...
by: Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen!

Hi Momma,

Please read what I said again, because I think you just read through it too fast. I said, there is no vitamin d in breast milk UNLESS you are taking high doses of vitamin d or getting those high doses through direct sun exposure on the skin. And I said that there was no vitamin d in YOUR breast milk because you have been very deficient in vitamin d while you were breast feeding.

So, breast milk is an EXCELLENT source of vitamin d when the mother is sufficient, but NOT when the mother is deficient. So, you believe that there IS vitamin d in the breast milk of mothers, whether they are deficient or not- only less so.

But I'll show that Suite 101 is WRONG on that because there are MANY MANY cases of breastfed babies getting rickets. So much so, that there have been warnings out to women who breast feed that they need to be supplementing their babies. Well, it takes LESS THAN 200 IU's per day to prevent rickets, so these babies are not even getting 200 IU's per day- leading to rickets and possibly even Heart Failure from Vitamin D Deficiency!

So, while it is possible that they are not getting ZERO, they are certainly getting less than 100 to 200 IU's per day. Again, please see my page on Vitamin D and Breastfeeding where I delve into this subject in great detail.

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