Rickets
Prevention and Treatment of Rickets
Prevention
This should start from the pregnancy, giving the mother a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D. Also, the newborn should be breastfed until 6 months, and the woman should continue with a diet rich in vitamin D (milk, eggs and fish liver oil).
Of course, the child should be exposed to the sun and when two years old can begin to get vitamin D through cod liver oil, precautions to be performed especially in infants who were born prematurely, and twins who are developing very fast who are the most prone to rickets. Read the rest of this entry »
Importance of Vitamin D to Prevent Rickets
In the early twentieth century the disease was a serious problem, particularly in Scotland and other parts of northern Europe. Some scientists realized that there was a relationship between the geographical distribution of stunting and the proportion of sunlight in the region and, later, in 1913, researchers at the University of Wisconsin (USA) have found that some milk-producing goats they were kept indoors much of the calcium lost from the skeleton, while those located outside the conserved.
Six years later, in 1919, German scientist K. Huldschinsky made a remarkably innovative experiment, since the condition was cured using ultraviolet light produced artificially. Two years later, researchers Alfred F. And L. Hess F. Unger, Columbia University (USA) showed that the sun was enough to expose infants stunted to cure them of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »
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Warning Signs of Rickets
The main clinical manifestations of rickets are seen in skeletal, in example bones soften and the composition is altered. In principle, we would say that the structure of the skull bone is injured on the side and rear, so to feel the infant’s head has the feeling that you are squeezing a rubber ball.
In the chest is almost always seen the so-called “rachitic rosary” which consists of a row of round bumps that are located in the part where the limb joins the ribs to the sternum, also, the legs tend to curl.
Other characteristic symptoms of the disease:
- Poor growth in children 0 to 5 years, which can result in adulthood does not exceed 1.5 meters tall and have increased risk of osteoporosis, a condition in which bone mineral density decreases (calcium and collagen) due to imbalance in bone reconstruction cycle, which causes them to become porous, thin and fragile. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rickets and Vitamin D
It is known for hundreds of years, but rickets could only fought until it was discovered the relationship between bone health and vitamin D deficiency, which is essential for calcium and phosphorus are used by the body.
Rickets is a disease that causes weakening and softening of the bones in growth, precisely the period in which the body demands high levels of calcium and phosphorus. It is generally observed in children between 6 and 24 months old, and it is known that the presence of vitamin D is essential to prevent its occurrence, because without it the minerals mentioned above can not be used by the human body. Read the rest of this entry »
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