{"id":549,"date":"2017-11-11T03:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=549"},"modified":"2017-11-14T03:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:42:24","slug":"did-you-know-you-should-give-under-fives-vitamin-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? You Should Give Under-Fives Vitamin Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Children between the age of six months and five years should take vitamin A, C and D supplements, government advice says &#8211; do you find this surprising?<\/p>\n<p>If you do, it seems you&#8217;re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Wales found only 30% of parents and carers said they had ever been given advice by a health professional about giving young children vitamin supplements.<\/p>\n<p>And nearly two-thirds (64%) of those asked said they didn&#8217;t give their children vitamin supplements.<br \/>\nThe Department of Health (DoH) recommends all children aged six months to five years should be given supplements containing vitamins A, C, and D every day.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bethan McMinn, a pediatric registrar at the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, said the complexity of the guidelines could be a barrier to effective information sharing between professionals and parents.<\/p>\n<p>She said that while the DoH recommends all children aged six months to five years take a daily supplement, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recently updated its advice.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-41942105\">BBC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children between the age of six months and five years should take vitamin A, C and D supplements, government advice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitamins-supplements","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-vitamins-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}