Thursday, February 28, 2013

Too much vitamin D during pregnancy can cause food allergies

Source: Science Daily
 
Vitamin D

Pregnant women should avoid taking vitamin D supplements, new research suggests. Substitution appears to raise the risk of children developing a food allergy after birth. This was the conclusion drawn from a new survey carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in Germany which was published in the February issue of the medical journal Allergy.

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Too much vitamin D during pregnancy can cause food allergies, research suggests


 

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