Rickets

Rickets's disease overview

rickets are quite common pathology in children, manifested by bone dysplasia. The disease is common in the age of 3 years old. The epidemiological area often meets rickets are mountainous areas, where fog, less sunlight. Therefore, it leads to the lack of vitamin D synthesis, affecting the absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus, which are the necessary materials to create a skeleton.

However, urban children can also get rickets because children are surrounded too carefully in the house, not sunbathing often leads to the lack of vitamin D synthesis.

In addition to rickets due to lack of vitamin D because the supply is not enough, rickets are also caused by vitamin D metabolism disorders, making it not enough vitamin D3 are the type to participate in the process of conversion. >

Causes of Rickets's disease

The main cause of rickets is vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency provided from two sources: exogenous and endogenous.

  • External birth is from food, breast milk, this source accounts for a very small proportion. Vitamin D is soluble in oil, so if the baby's food does not have grease, it leads to a reduction in vitamin D absorption.
    • endogenous is from a precursor subcutaneous, under the influence of sunlight converted into vitamin D3, this is the main source to participate in the child's bone conversion. Therefore rickets common in children are rickets due to vitamin D deficiency.

    Another rare cause is vitamin K2 deficiency, a bone -generating calcium transport protein or a lack of some calcium, phosphorus, zinc, magnesium minerals are components of bone.

    Symptoms of Rickets's disease

  • Body: Children with rickets often show anorexia, malnutrition
  • In the bone: Children with rickets show the manifestation of the skull: Slow fontanel (more than 1 year old but still wide), soft fontanel bank, large head ring, forehead tumor, tumor tumor top. Children slow teething, tooth decay, uneven growth. At Bone Chi: Chi curved, ankle ring, wrist ring. Chest -shaped chest, may have ribs. The consequences resulted in children with slow developmental development as if they were late to know cows and late.
  • Neuroscope: Children with rickets are often startled, sleep deeply, or sweat at night (stealing sweat) leading to a lot of hair loss. If severe children often fuss constantly. In some cases, heavy rickets can lower blood calcium, causing children to sebine and vomiting.

    • People at risk for Rickets's disease

    Children in the lack of sunlight or children who are too carefully covered with sunbathing are all subjects that may be deficient in vitamin D due to reduced skin synthesis, leading to rickets. In addition, babies born prematurely, or twins, and babies are also easy to rickets because they are not provided with enough nutrients while still in the womb.

    Prevention of Rickets's disease

  • To prevent rickets for children, pregnant women also need to pay attention to themselves and provide adequate nutrients during pregnancy, especially in many cases of multiple pregnancy. Demand is usually higher than usual.
  • Making a balanced diet and for children to sunbathe regularly in the morning will reduce the risk of rickets.
  • For children, breast milk is a balanced source of nutrients and has a higher rate of vitamin D than all other formula and food supplements. When the child has weaned, the diet needs to be balanced to ensure the addition of calcium, phosphorus is the raw material to create the skeleton.
  • In foggy areas, sunlight is not enough to synthesize vitamin D, children need to be supplemented with oral vitamin D3. And to absorb vitamin D well, the child's diet must not abstain from grease.

    • Diagnostic measures for Rickets's disease

  • mainly based on clinical examination and X-ray to detect manifestations of bone disease as well as the accompanying neurological symptoms.

    • In addition, blood tests can be tested to measure vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus indicators to evaluate the shortage to orient the treatment accordingly.

    Rickets's disease treatments

    Sunbathing regularly in the morning is also a treatment for children with rickets. In addition, 400 UI Vitamin D3 can be added daily for children until the child runs out of symptoms. When children have rickets, they need to be examined and consulted by pediatric nutrition experts for specific and appropriate treatment. Avoid arbitrary use of drugs without a doctor's application, harmful to children.

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