Vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindnes, mobidity and mortality among young children throughout the developing world. In Indonesia high dose of vitamin A supplementation has already been done to children after six months old supplementation to neonates was not available yet. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of high dose vitamin A (50.00 IU) supplementation in neona…
Since the vitamin A status of most newborn is marginal, therefore, to avoid the infants suffering from vitamin A deficiency, it may be worth by ensuring that the concentration of retinol in breast milk is adequate. To evaluate the effect of vitamin A supplementation on the concentration of retinol in breast milk of postpartum mothers. One hundred sixteen of postpartum mothers were randomly assi…