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Article: Pediatric burn patients need vitamin D supplements.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- February 13, 2004
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2004 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children with severe burns have a diminished capacity to make vitamin D and should receive vitamin D supplements to stop their bones from weakening, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston report in a new study.
UTMB pediatrics professor Dr. Gordon Klein, the lead author, and his colleagues discovered that children with burns over more than 40% of their bodies don't make enough vitamin D on their own to produce strong bones.
Normally, human skin makes vitamin D, known as the "sunshine vitamin," through exposure to sunlight. But in burned children, even skin that's not burned ...