Vitamin D Deficiency May Soften Baby's Skull

In early 2008 The World Health Organization discovered that a deficiency of Vitamin D in the pregnant women may cause the baby to be born with a soft, and often problematic. They also found that if the vitamin deficiency continued threw breast feeding that it could aggravate the situation and may cause serious health issues later in the baby's life and will increase the child's chance of getting type 1 diabetes.

The troubling part about this situation is the fact that these studies were conducted in the United States, which is a very rich country. Where most of its citizens are getting and many times exceeding the required amount of nutrition in any given day. It is easy to see how this can be increasingly problematic in less civilized nations. The researchers found that out of the 1120 newborns that they evaluated nearly 22% of them were born with soften skulls due to Vitamin D deficiency. This however has an easy fix, the women that are taking care of their children just need to increase the intake of vitamin D.