Lack of vitamin D may cause autism to children during pregnancy

Medical Adina Camarasu
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A U.S. study, which was published in Molecular Psychiatry Journal, revealed that the presence of vitamin D in mother’s body during pregnancy may reduce the risk of autism in children.

During this study, researchers examined almost 4,200 blood samples from pregnant women and their children in Netherlands.

Seeing how often the series of mothers and their children diagnosed with autism aged between 6-17 years have been exposed to sun rays, led to a stunning conclusion: Vitamin D may be the preventive cure for autism.

Another study revealed that the children who were exposed to UVB sun rays during autumn and summer, thanks to the geographical area in which they lived, faced a lower risk of developing autism.

Also, in the geographical areas in which children were less exposed to UVB rays (especially the African-American children or those with a darker skin color, which contains lower concentrations of vitamin D because it’s hardly synthesized) was discovered the autism rate was 40% higher.

This leads to the following question: autism disorders are mainly caused by vitamin D deficiency during mother’s pregnancy or the low intake of vitamin D during the child’s early ages?

Other studies have shown the effects of vitamin D deficiency on the child’s brain development during the second trimester of pregnancy, include an increased risk of schizophrenia and language disorders.

Also, children who are born in spring appear to have a higher risk of suffering from autism and other linked disorders.

Scientists are doing major efforts to demonstrate if autism’s symptoms can be corrected by the correct intake of vitamin D deficiency.