In today's society, parents pay more and more attention to the health and nutrition of their children, so many parents choose to add cod liver oil to their children. However, it is easy for them to enter into some errors. According to the survey, there are 65% of the parents who have some misunderstandings of cod liver oil. And these errors are mainly as follows:

The first error: eating cod liver oil is the more the better.
The vitamins A and vitamin D contained in cod liver oil are fat-soluble vitamins, which are different with other water-soluble vitamins such as vitamin B1 and vitamin B2. These vitamins can not be excluded out of the body in time. If the intake amount exceeds the scope of human need, it will be stored in the body. If there is excessive accumulation of cod liver oil in the body, it will produce toxic and side effects on human body.

The second error: cod liver oil is the same with fish oil.
The raw material of cod liver oil is mainly fish liver, with vitamin A and vitamin D as the major components. While fish oil is the extract of fish fat, which belongs to fish lipids and its main components are unsaturated fatty acids.

If the parents mistakenly provide fish oil instead of cod liver oil to their babies, it not only can not supplement the vitamins lacked in the body of their babies, but may even cause other diseases and symptoms.

The third error: any kind of cod liver oil can be taken in the same way.
According to the different content of vitamin AD in cod liver oil, we should also use different method when taking cod liver oil. For example, the medicinal type of cod liver oil is a kind of vitamin AD drops. As it has relatively high doze, so it is not suitable for long-term use; while the dietary type of cod liver oil contains appropriate dose and can supplement the daily needs of the baby, so it is suitable for long-term use.

The fourth error: when taking outdoor activities, it is unnecessary to add cod liver oil.
During the sunny summer, is it not necessary to add cod liver oil to babies? It is not the fact. If your babies has enough time for outdoor activities, or they can get more than two hours of sunshine every day, then the amount of cod liver oil supplementation can be relatively reduced.