Going Solar is Good but Caution Needed!

Why not treat the mother-infant dyad, rather than infant alone, as achieving vitamin D sufficiency is equally important for the mothers. Compliance with daily oral vitamin D supplementation of infants is documented to be very poor even in the West [4,5]. Exposing infants to sunlight may be a more difficult proposition than medicinal supplements. While the natural way of augmenting the vitamin D levels can be studied, the logistics and safety of such an approach has to be established firmly before disbanding the currently recommended regimen of daily 400IU Vitamin D to infants of predominantly breastfed infants.