ROUTINE USE OF THE VITAMIN B FACTOR IN INFANT FEEDING

Abstract

My object in this paper is to report a study of 150 infants fed as a routine with food containing a sugar rich in the vitamin B factor. It has long been the observation of clinicians that there comes a period in the life of many artificially fed, and even breast fed infants, often at from 5 to 10 months of age, when there is evidence of some vitamin deficiency. These are infants who have been properly fed with foods which according to our present standards are thought to be correct, and who have had cod liver oil and orange juice and therefore were properly supplied with vitamins A, C and D. Such infants may cease to gain properly in weight, becoming fretful and restless or pale; some of them have anorexia, and others seem to fail to assimilate their food properly. It has been suspected but difficult to prove