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You can use the information below when advising customers with toddlers on vitamins.

Growing toddlers, especially if they don’t eat a varied diet, might not get enough vitamins A and C. It is also difficult to get enough vitamin D through diet alone. The Department of Health recommends that all children aged six months to five years are given vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, C and D daily.

Breastfed babies from birth to one year should be given a daily supplement containing 8.5 to 10 micrograms (µg) of vitamin D. Children aged one to four years should be given a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D.

If babies and toddlers are having more than 500 ml of infant formula a day, they should not be given vitamin supplements as formula is fortified with vitamins A, C and D as well as other nutrients.¹¹

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It is likely that parents and caregivers of toddlers will come into the pharmacy asking for advice.

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