It is recommended that all babies receive Vitamin D drops. When it came time for us to buy our drops for Spencer I wasn't very pleased with the additives found in the average drops. For example some brands of infant supplement include among their ingredients, butylated hydroxyanisole, “BHA”, which is described by the National Institutes of Health as “Reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen”. No thank-you! Further more- the average supplement requires an infant to be given a 1-ml dropper full of sugary liquid. Plus, since they aren't used to sugary substances this can make them gasp and cough.
I came across a Canadian made product called "D drops" a natural drop in a glass bottle with no additives, sugars, etc. available at Capers, Choices, London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart. D drops only contains vitamin D and purified coconut oil. So all you need is one Euro-drop onto a soother or even your nipple before breast feeding. Less liquid, no additives but the same required amount of vitamin D 400IU's. Fabulous!
For more information take a look at their website:
http://www.ddrops.ca/index.html
http://well.ca/brand/ddrops.html (also available online through well.ca)
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2 comments:
Good to know! Wish we were a little closer to Choices or Capers. (We are way out here in North Surrey.) Awesome that it has less additives, and I also like the idea that you can just add it to a nipple before breast feeding or soother as that sounds much easier and less messy!
Hi Niki,
Good news! It looks like these drops are also available at London Drugs & Shoppers. :) You can also order them through well.ca a Canadian online drug store.
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