Does darling get rickets symptom?

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Vitamin D deficiency rickets is a common nutritional deficiency in infants and young children. It is often called "calcium deficiency" by common people, which is wrong and should be vitamin D deficiency. Does darling get rickets symptom? Let's talk about it.

Does darling get rickets symptom?

Calcium can prevent rickets. There are many kinds of rickets, the most common is "vitamin D deficiency rickets". The medical definition of the disease is "a chronic nutritional disease caused by calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorder due to vitamin D deficiency in children". So this disease has nothing to do with calcium supplement. It's useless for parents to give their children more calcium. If the vitamin D in the body is insufficient, they may suffer from this disease. There are many pathogenic factors, such as less sun exposure, less vitamin D in food, excessive growth, as well as some diseases and drug factors.

Rib valgus is rickets, vitamin D deficiency rickets is characterized by: due to calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorders, the growing epiphyseal cartilage plate can not be normal calcification, resulting in bone lesions. Its typical symptoms are that the baby's head will be "square box like" at seven or eight months old, the ribs will be "beaded" at about one year old, and the bones at the wrists and ankles will be thickened, just like wearing bracelets and foot bracelets. These typical symptoms are one of the basis for the diagnosis of rickets.

Of course, in the early stage of the disease, that is, within 6 months, the baby will appear crying, restless sleep, sweating, pillow baldness and other symptoms. When the baby starts to stand and learn to walk, it may appear X-shaped legs or O-shaped legs. However, these are not specific symptoms of rickets, such as baby sleep cover too thick, cause excessive sweating, also can appear pillow baldness. As for the causes of rib valgus are more, the child's liver is too large, elastic pants raised too high, may appear rib valgus. The baby appears these symptoms, the mother need not be too nervous, rickets diagnosis also needs to judge according to the biochemical index.

matters needing attention

City incidence rate of rickets is more than 40% in some cities with high latitude. The incidence rate of rickets in Guangzhou is 10% because of low latitude. In winter, the incidence rate of rickets is higher than that of summer because of the short sunshine time and the less outdoor activities of children. Su advised parents to let their children do more outdoor activities after school or on weekends, expose their skin as much as possible, and do not bask in the sun through the glass.