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Normal vitamin requirements in neonates and infants

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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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Information about vitamin requirements by neonates and infants has been derived from studies of the composition of breast milk, from feed-response trials, from the occurrence of overt deficiency in infants fed damaged milk formulae, and by extrapolation from experimental deficiency studies on adult humans and on animals. Our knowledge is far from complete, however, and dietary recommendations have been formulated for only about half the known vitamins in the UK. In the near future, studies with stable isotope-labelled vitamins should help to define pool sizes and turnover rates that are associated with particular intakes and thus give firmer evidence about requirements.

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Bates, C.J. Normal vitamin requirements in neonates and infants. J Inherit Metab Dis 8 (Suppl 1), 8–12 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01800652

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