{"id":167649,"date":"2025-09-29T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167649\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:05:08","slug":"everyone-in-uk-told-to-take-4p-pill-every-day-for-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167649\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone in UK told to take 4p pill every day for five months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Otherwise you could become quite unwell<\/p>\n

05:11, 29 Sep 2025Updated 07:20, 29 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"WomanThe supplement can ward off ‘soft bones'(Image: Halfpoint Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

People across the UK are being advised to begin taking a daily supplement that is available for around 4p per tablet. Vitamin D works to control calcium and phosphate levels within the body, with these vital nutrients keeping bones, teeth and muscles at their best<\/p>\n

Without enough vitamin D, children can develop bone deformities like rickets, whilst grown-ups may suffer bone pain from osteomalacia, also known as “soft bones”. Between late March or early April through to the end of September, most people can enough sufficient vitamin D from sunshine alone.<\/p>\n

But as there’s less sunlight in the autumn and winter months, Government officials recommend everyone considers taking a daily Vitamin D pill<\/a> from October, which begins on Wednesday. This guidance remains in place through to March.<\/p>\n

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Those at higher risk of deficiency, including children aged one to four, and babies who are breastfed or consume less than 500ml of formula per day, need year-round supplements, according to the NHS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kids from age one upwards and adults require 10 micrograms (mcg) of vitamin D daily. This includes pregnant and breastfeeding mums, and anyone at higher deficiency risk.<\/p>\n

As well as sunlight, Vitamin D can be found in a small number of foods including oily fish, red meat, egg yolks and fortified breakfast cereals. However NHS advice states: “Since it’s difficult for people to get enough vitamin D from food alone, everyone should consider taking a daily supplement containing 10 micrograms of vitamin D during the autumn and winter.”<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Social Care advises that breastfed babies, or those on less than 500ml (roughly a pint) of formula milk daily, should be given a daily supplement containing 8.5 to 10 micrograms of vitamin D all year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otherwise you could become quite unwell 05:11, 29 Sep 2025Updated 07:20, 29 Sep 2025 The supplement can ward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[23307,55106,1991,102,104,6636,56,54,55,6959],"class_list":{"0":"post-167649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-babies","9":"tag-breastfeeding","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-vitamins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}