Symptoms of rickets

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Rickets is a common pediatric disease, many children suffer from rickets in life, and the occurrence of this disease will affect the healthy growth and physical and mental development of children. Therefore, parents should know more about the early symptoms of rickets in children's life, so as to find out the rickets of children as soon as possible and treat them as soon as possible. Rickets symptoms, the following I tell you.

Symptoms of rickets

Symptoms: mainly for the mental and neurological symptoms, seen in rickets in the early activity and polar phase. Children are irritable, irritable, restless in sleep, night terrors, crying at night and sweating. Due to the stimulation of sweat, they often shake their heads and wipe their pillows when they sleep, resulting in hair loss behind the pillow (pillow baldness). With the progress of the disease, the muscle tension is low, the joint ligaments are lax, and the abdomen is enlarged, such as frog abdomen.

The children's movements were slow and they walked independently late. Severe rickets often accompanied by anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, malnutrition, weakened systemic immunity, easy to suffer from diarrhea, pneumonia, and easy to become protracted. Children with hypocalcemia may have hypocalcemia spasm (tetany), increased neuromuscular excitability, facial and hand foot muscle convulsions or general convulsions, which stop after a few minutes, but may also occur intermittently and frequently. Severe convulsions may cause suffocation due to laryngeal spasm.

Rickets in children after the disease will appear abnormal behavior, the main common sleeping instability, easy to cry and often sweating, some children may appear head itching and pillow baldness symptoms.

matters needing attention

Timely detection of children suffering from rickets and timely medical treatment. The incidence rate of rickets is very high, so parents should pay more attention to their children's health in their daily lives, and take their children to the hospital regularly for examination, so as to timely check the lesions, so as to prevent the children's healthy growth from being damaged.