Pregnant women should take a daily dose of vitamin D on a daily basis, claim researchers of the UK.

The officials at Department of Health in the UK recommend that expecting moms should have at least 10 micrograms of vitamin D. This level is not suffice by regular diet or the exposure to sun thus should be taken from outside.

However this has received a resistance from National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) who stated it never suggested of any support supplements.

Rather it stated that women need to be informed of adequate vitamin D levels during their pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

The paper published highlighted that UK was the only one of 31 countries surveyed did not advise that women of reproductive age should take vitamin D supplement.

Meanwhile Dr Elina Hypponen, co-author of the paper said, "We believe that the routine provision of a daily supplement throughout pregnancy would significantly decrease the number of mothers who are clearly vitamin D deficient, reducing related serious risks to their babies."