Supplemental Vitamin D for Infants

Try Rite Aid or Longs Drugs. I usually get it at Longs Drugs and it's behind the pharmacy counter. Tri Va Sol.
Good Luck.

M.,
you might want to try the health food stores instead, they carry a wide variety of liquid vitamins. If you need info on which ones are local, or that I go to, feel free to contact me.
W. m.

We have Kaiser and they have them in the pharmacy - it's a multivitamin with D included

I gave my son Poly-Vi-Sol and bought it at Longs and Safeway.

VITAMIN D & INFANTS:

http://www.aap.org/pressroom/nce/nce08vitamind.htm

http://www.sunlightvitamins.com/About_Just_D.php

Just make sure it does not contain any FLOURIDE!!!

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http://poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/prozac.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ys9q1cvKGk

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My dr. gives my daughter (nine months) RX Choice poly vitamin drops because I am nursing her. It contains vitamin D. But U have to get prescription from your dr.

Hi M., I have a 3 month old boy, and doctor told us to get Poly-vi-Sol which is a multi-vitamin containing Vitamin D. Maybe ask your Dr. if that would work....

Both my boys take Shaklee brand multi vitamins and because of this, I am giving them supplemental vit D along with other helpful nutrients. My youngest started having the powder vits in his cereal at 4 months old. Otherwise he was (and still is) breast fed.

I found the drops at Walgreens and Kaiser pharmacy. They are enfamil - tir.vi.sol vitamin A,C, and D supplement drops. According to my sister the vitamin A and C help the vitamin D be absorbed into the body. Hope this helps.

Most drug stores have Enfamil Tri-Vi-Sol. If not, you can order it online through retailers such as walgreens.com, drugstore.com or diapers.com.

M., i used to be the sales rep for Biotics Research supplements - sold to Dr's not stores and it is perfect for children. it is 400iu -so 1 drop each day. i give it to my 18 month old who is still breast feeding. i supplement too though - that is the reason breast milk is deficient - b/c we are too! If you live in Marin you can go to Pediatric Alternatives in mill valley and purchase some. it is very reasonably priced and is of superior quality! email me if you want me to find another dr closer to you who sells it. i was the rep for southern cal. not northern, so i would call the company for you.

I have not seen them in any stores, but I got a prescription from my Ped for them, call him back and ask for a prescription. Our supplement is a mix of Vit C, A and fluoride which may be too much for your 3 month old, but I would still ask about a prescription

Hi M.,
I asked my peditrician about Vit. D drops as well when my son was about the same age. The handout at the well check from Kaiser recommended it. She said don't bother, that since we live in a sunny area and take our kids for walks, they get enough that way. I never bothered and my son is now 1 year old and been breastfeed since birth and seems fine! Good luck in finding your answer.

My doctor recommended that I get Tri-vi-sol (three vitamin solution) to supplement for vitamin D. My local pharmacy only had poly-vi-sol, so I asked them to special order it and it arrived within two days. I hope that helps.

Hi M.,

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N. Marie

My ped. brought this up, but told me that if I had enough dairy in my diet, and if baby was outside (even in the car) just a bit every day, we would be fine. Just something else to consider...

Kaiser carries them in their pharmacy and they are Poly D vitamins.

For my daughter I was able to find vitamin D drops in liquid form. It is called Tri-Vi Sol. It is a three vitamin solution. I was able to purchase mine at at Walgreens over the counter. You should be able to get it at Rite Aide too. Good luck!

Cypress Natural Medicine has them in Palo Alto.

I'm sure this isn't helpful, but my mother lives near Canada and had no trouble finding vitamin D drops for infants there. She sent me some last spring when my breastfed baby was already a few months old and already getting outside quite a bit, so I didn't use them much. Our pediatrician prescribed the tri-vi-sol.
Mostly though, for vitamin D, I have just relaxed about having a baby out in the sun. My baby is fair skinned and still nearly bald at 12 months, so I think he probably gets adequate D from being outside for at least a few minutes most days.

I don't think there is vit D drops available on the market. Get Tri-Vi-Sol that contains vit A,D, E over the counter.

I just bought the generic version at the Kaiser pharmacy at 2200 O'Farrell Street (off Divisadero & St. Josephs). Normally get the TriViSol brand but the pharmacist said that with the news coverage on Vitamin D, demand was so great that they ran out super fast hence the generic version available for purchase.

My pediatrician prescribed some to us. They are called polyvitamin drops not just vitamin D drops. I know from some of my friends that some insurances don't cover them but they are fairly cheap. If you find them good luck getting your baby to take them. I have tried a couple of times and my son (4 months) just gets mad and spits them on me. For now we just go out in the sun for our vitamin D. I also have a 4 year old and he never took them and is just fine. Both my boys are fall/winter babies and they seemed to get enough sun even in the winter.

Just simply take your baby outside during the day for a total of a few hours a week and he will make all the Vitamin D he needs and it comes from the best source.

We used Tri-Vi-Sol which included 2 other vitamins, C and A I think, and we had little difficulty finding it.

My dr recommended the same thing for my daughter a month ago, except he recomended Tri Vi Sol (vit D plus two other vitamins). I couldn't find it anywhere and when I asked the pharmacist he said it wasn't made anymore. Poly Vi Sol (vit D plus about 8 other vitamins) is still on the market. Checked with my dr and he said the Poly Vi Sol was fine. It's very important that breastfed children get enough Vit D (and a few other vitamins doesn't hurt!)

Hi M.,

My son was exclusively breast-fed also, and we also gave him the drops. I'm trying to remember (it was a couple of years ago) but I think what our dr gave us was actually a multi-vitamin drop for infants (mostly vitamin D but some other vitamins as well).

As I'm sure your research has told you, since we no longer wear our babies on our backs as we work in the fields every day, and because we slather them in SPF every time they go outside, they don't have the opportunity to get vitamin D from sunlight. Formulas have a multivatamin mix added to them which is why only breastfed babies need the drops.

Good luck in your search, trying looking for "infant vitamin drops" instead of something specifically labled vitamin D.

Hope this helps.
T.

I bought Vitamin D drops for my daughter at Whole Foods. You can put the drop directly on her pacifier.

Cod Liver oil has vitamin A and D in it so your baby would get the brain healthy omega's and vitamin A&D. Once I started giving it to my son he hasn't really gotten sick. If he does he is barely sick for a day and then all better. Here is a link to brand recommendations of the proper balance of A&D in cod liver oil. Also, you have to be careful of brands that remove the natural vitamin A&D and replace it with toxic synthetic A&D.

http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnutrition/cod-liver-oil-...

I found mine at Walgreens.

Hi M.,
My daughter, now 17 months, took a multi vitamin drop until she was 12-13 months old. It has the daily recommended value of all the important vitamins including D. It might be an option if you can't find just D.
Good luck!

S.

Hi M., The doctor told me to give my baby Vitamin D drops too. She gave me a sample of what I should buy. It's Enfamil Tri Vi Sol (Vitamins A, C, and D). This is probably what your doctor means. But when I ran out of the sample, I had a hard time finding this product in stores and ended up buying it online at diapers.com.

Natural sunlight does, of course, give your baby Vitamin D, but I believe our doctor mentioned that exclusively breastfed babies need even more...for bone development.