Konstantinos Gerasimidis
Professor Konstantinos Gerasimidis is Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the University of Glasgow, UK, and dietitian by trait
Location United Kingdom
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This chapter is for water soluble vitamins and for each of them we discuss in our Position Papers which micronutrients depend on mum's intake and which not.
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sounds like most will do... not many measure water soluble vitamins. simply because they do not have local labs to do so, measurements are expensive too... Not measuring a micronutrient does not necessary mean it is not deficient... and for these "unusual" micronutrients we have little published data to tell us whether it is important to measure them or not
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Does Abidec and Dalivit provide all vitamins? I had a quick look and I do not think they do, right?
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Does Abidec and Dalivit provide all vitamins? I had a quick look and I do not think they do, right?
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it is good to supplement mother but not all micronutrient in milk depend on mum's intake or status....
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We can say with a good degree of certainty that infant preterm formulas provide the water soluble vitamins in excess of the babies requirements. Although we have no good data to support our claims we believe that if pre-terms receive a slightly lower intake than the ESPGHAN recommendations this does not necessarily mean they are at risk of deficiencies. best...
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Practices vary and availability of maternal or donors milk is often an issue
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I think it is fair to say that formulas provide at least the minimum amount of water soluble vitamins required... It is almost certain they provide a lot more than babies need but we do not have good quality data to make strong claims. We need more and better quality of research
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Yes this is often called the concept of prudence... but whether more is always best we do not know. Like iron supplementation in inflammatory/infectious conditions, mostly of the gut
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@NicholasEmbleton @MoriamMustapha Yeap it is a circular argument which is difficult to break. We need better quality data from observational studies (relatively easy to do) and RCT (more effort)
