Will the baby be poisoned if he ingests 10 capsules of vitamin AD by mistake?
Chao News client reporter Wang Zhe correspondent Zou Zi Chen Yang Li Yan
"Vitamin AD" is a well-known vitamin preparation, but also a must-have drug for every household, although the description states that one tablet a day, but inevitably the children at home are naughty, a little careless, will steal a large number of "vitamin AD" capsules at once, so that parents panic.
A few days ago, Ms. Zhu (pseudonym) hurriedly entered the emergency room of the First People's Hospital of Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, with her child in her arms, saying that her 2-year-old child had accidentally ingested 10 vitamin AD drops and asked if she needed gastric lavage. After Dr. Chen Yang of the emergency pediatric department learned the dosage the child was taking, he comforted Ms. Zhu that she did not need gastric lavage, and Ms. Zhu was relieved.
Source: Visual China
According to Dr. Chen, vitamin AD drops are composed of vitamin A and vitamin D, which are two fat-soluble vitamins that are closely related to children's health. Adequate vitamin A and vitamin D nutrition has a positive effect on children's early development and disease prevention and treatment, deficiency and insufficiency will affect children's health, but if the one-time intake is too much, it will also cause harm to children.
Large intake of vitamin A may lead to the destruction of lysosomal membranes and the release of various hydrolytic enzymes, causing widespread systemic lesions, and its clinical manifestations are related to intake and individual differences. Acute poisoning may occur if the adult or child takes 100,000 U orally for more than 6 months and infants and young children ingest 50,000~100,000 U per day for more than 6 months.
Excessive intake of vitamin D in the human body will cause hypercalcemia, serum 25 (OH) D3>375 nmol/L, accompanied by hypercalciuria and low parathyroid hormone, called vitamin D toxicity. Infants and young children ingest 20,000~50,000 U per day for several weeks or months, or 2000 U/kg per day for 1-3 months, which will lead to vitamin D toxicity.
Source: Visual China
The vitamin A content in our common vitamin AD drops is 1500U (infants under one year old) or 2000U (infants over one year old), and the vitamin D content is 500U (infants under one year old) or 700U (infants over one year old), which means that children need to eat a lot of pills at a time to cause poisoning.
Therefore, an occasional overdose will not cause poisoning, and parents do not need to worry. Dr. Chen reminds that although it is difficult for children to reach the toxic dose of vitamin AD drops by mistake, it is still not to be taken lightly, and it is necessary to do a good job in children's safety education and not to put the medicine in a place where children can easily reach it, so as to prevent similar incidents from happening.
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