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Rickets: It’s Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

What is Rickets ?

Rickets is a disorder primarily caused by lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate, which leads to softening and weakening of the bones.

It is a bone problem that usually occurs in children. Rickets can make your child's bones hurt. The bones soften and can break easily.

It causes soft, weak bones in children. It usually occurs when they do not get enough vitamin D, which helps growing bones absorb important nutrients. Vitamin D comes from sunlight and food. Your skin produces vitamin D in response to the sun's rays. Some foods also contain vitamin D, including fortified dairy products and cereals, and some kinds of fish.

Causes of rickets:

vitamin D helps the body properly control calcium and phosphate levels in the body. When the body is deficient in vitamin D, it is unable to properly control calcium and phosphate levels. If the blood levels of these minerals become too low, the body may produce other body hormones to stimulate release of calcium and phosphate from the bones. This leads to weak and soft bones.

Age plays a great part. Rickets is a disease of young children, starting at the age of sixth month or after, less commonly of adolescents, characterized by deficient bone formation. There is abundant formation of osteoid tissue but inadequate calcification.

Climate also has its influence, more prevalent in moist than in dry climates. Diathetic influences are second only to heredity. In the tropic the skin is more exposed to sunlight and severe forms of rickets are not usually seen.

Symptoms of rickets:

Infant rickets symptoms:

Deformed skulls

Late-closing fontanelles

Rib-breastbone joint enlargement

Delayed sitting

Delayed crawling

Delayed walking

Knobby enlargements on the ends of bones

Bowing legs under weight

Distorting pelvis under weight

Spinal curvature

Restlessness

Lack of sleep

Retarded growth

Delayed crawling

Delayed sitting

Delayed walking

Thin top of skull

Thin back of skull

Bossing

Delayed closure of fontanelles

Beading where rib joins cartilage

Enlarged ends of bones

Bowed leg

Knock-knees

Weak muscles

Deformed chest

Weak ribs

Abnormal teeth development

Tooth decay

Treatment of rickets:

The treatment goals include relieving the symptoms and correcting the underlying cause to prevent recurrence. If the condition is not corrected while children are still growing, skeletal deformities and short stature may be permanent, but if it is corrected while the child is young, skeletal deformities often reduce or disappear with time.

The symptoms disappear with the replacement of deficient phosphorous, and/or vitamin D.

Biologically active form of vitamin D could be used in people who have difficulty in converting vitamin D to its active form.

Including fish, liver and processed milk, which are rich sources of vitamin D in the diet.

Exposure to moderate amounts of sunlight.

Skeletal deformities could be corrected by maintaining a good posture and bracing could help in reducing the deformities.

Some skeletal deformities can be corrected only with surgical correction.

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