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A 26-year-old female asked:
in the multivitamin prenatal of rainbow light with 10 mg thiamin mononitrate, it is high over the recommended 1,5mg/day of rads. can i take prenatal o?
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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
Psychiatry 25 years experience
Re-ask: Looks like part of your question is cut off. May want to re-ask.
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Dr. Kathy Robinson answered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
It is fine: Thiamine is a B vitamin and it will not harm you at all to take a slightly higher than normal dose. B vitamins are water soluble and any extra that you have gets flushed out in the urine. If you are taking it as a prenatal vitamin make sure it has folate or folic acid in it. Folate is important for preventing neural tube defects, a type of birth defect.
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