PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 3 September 1979, pp. 392-393
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Need for an Infant Intravenous Multiple Vitamin Preparation

Karin E. Zenk PharmD1 and Robert F. Huxtable MD1

1 University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Division of Neonatology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, CA 92715

The only commercially available intravenous multiple vitamin with A and D, M.V.I., (Multi-Vitamin Infusion, USV Pharmaceutical Corp., Tuckahoe, NY) appears to have been formulated for use in adults, yet must be used for infants and children because of the lack of an alternative product. To provide the RDA of 400 IU of vitamin D with this fixed ratio preparation, a disproportionately high dose for infants of some vitamins must be given, while an insufficient amount of others is provided.