Medical experts have cautioned mothers against giving their children excess Vitamin A warning that it could cause serious health problems.
According to them, giving children vitamin A in excess quantities can affect the brain and even lead to convulsions.
They also noted that what children need to grow and thrive is appropriate and good nutrition and not dietary supplements.
Taking high doses of vitamin A supplements could also cause liver damage.
“Combining high doses of the vitamin, A supplements with other drugs that can damage the liver could increase the risk of liver disease.
“Too much vitamin A can be harmful and excess vitamin A during pregnancy has been linked to birth defects,” Mayo Clinic says.
The physicians also stated this during exclusive interviews, urging parents to see children as human beings and not disease entities.
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A Professor of Public Health Nutrition with the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Beatrice Ogunba, said parents should avoid giving their children surgery foods.
The nutritionist also added that some foods and beverages identified by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund as unhealthy for consumption during complementary feeding.
Complementary feeding, Prof. Ogunba however explained, starts when breast milk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of infants, adding that from that point, other foods and liquids needed, along with breast milk to meet the nutritional needs of the baby.
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According to the WHO, after six months of age, it also becomes increasingly difficult for breastfed infants to meet their nutrient needs from human milk alone.
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