By Ganda Putra
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of vitamin D is usually always labeled on vitamins products. But sometimes vitamin D RDA on each label can be incorrect value and sometimes may confuse consumer who buy the products.
Vitamin D RDA Recommended Values
- Baby from 0-12 months should take 25 microgram / mcg (1000 IU per day)
- An infant and adults people should take 50 microgram / mcg 2000 IU per day twice from baby needs
- For the pregnant women should take 150 microgram / mcg or about 6000 IU per day
Recommended value of some nutrient should be consumed commonly base on 2000 diet calorie. But especially for daily intake vitamins and minerals are commonly build upon RDA standard. This vitamin D RDA has a purpose of the normal vitamin d levels to avoid vitamin D deficiency fatigue and other side effects.
Vitamin D Rich Foods
Vitamin D RDA are also for the people who always consume supplement products and less eat of vitamin D rich foods. Surely when somebody always eats vitamin D rich foods, RDA are less significant. Vitamin D Rich foods contain :
- Mushrooms
- Nutritional yeast
- Fatty fish
- Wheat germ
- Fish oils like salmon fish.
The person who had vitamin d deficiency should take a higher dose of vitamin D supplement. It could be take up to 1000 IU or its about 0.025 mili gram of vitamin D per day.
Vitamin D Deficiency Symptoms
An infant or children must be seriously be paid attention if they are on condition get vitamin d deficiency symptoms. Because this symptoms can cause bone degenerative or rickets disease.
Osteomalacia disease can happened to adults which has vitamin d deficiency and this disease will lower bone density cause by less mineral. Osteomalacia are very contrast with osteoporosis which lack of calcium and sooner make the bones porous. Drinking the vitamin D Supplement according to vitamin D RDA is much recommended.
The Benefits of Vitamin D in Our Body
It is obvious that vitamin D has played important role for absorbing calcium and maintain healthiness of bones and teeth. Vitamin D will permit humans organ of intestinal to absorb calcium and decrease the calcium elimination via urine.
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Vitamin D also plays important roles on manage the metabolism of phosphorus and calcium. Some believe vitamin D can help the patient who has tuberculosis by eating vitamin D rich foods.
While vitamin D can be act as antioxidant who will fight free radical, it also fights against breast cancer and colon cancer.
Some treatment is recommended to consume vitamin D supplement according to vitamin D RDA. Just don’t exceed the RDA of vitamin d overdose symptoms or vitamin d toxicity symptoms can’t be avoided. So life healthy and keep on the track 
