EFFECIENCY OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL CLEFT UPPER LIPAND PALATE
The research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the standard vitamin D supplementation scheme to the normalize vitamin D balance and to reduce the incidence of acute respiratory pathology in children with congenital cleft upper lip and palate. Methods. 62 children of the first year of life with congenital cleft upper lips and palates who underwent cheiloplasty were examined. Results. The presence of vitamin D insuficiency is characteristic of children with congenital cleft upper lips and palates was found. The normal level of vitamin D in 21.9% of patients with this pathology was established. It has been proposed to keep to a scheme of vitamin D supplementation, which consists in taking an aqueous solution of cholecalciferol during the first month - 2000IU/ day, then at 3 months - 1500 IU/day, then - 1000 IU/day before uranostaphyloplasty. It was found that the use of this regimen of taking cholecalciferol during the year allows to normalize the child’s vitamin D suficiency in 81.3% and reduces the incidence of acute respiratory pathology in these patients to 3.8 0.1 cases per year.