Rickets Disease Information - symptoms, picture, Treatment of Rickets Disease

Rickets is the deficiency of vitamin D in the food ingested (this containing an excess of cereals but insufficiently of milk, butter and eggs) or want of adequate sunlight necessary for the absorption retention of an adequate quantity of calcium and phosphorus for bone formation. They are two clinical manifestations of the same disease which is usually caused by a defect in vitamin D availability or metabolism.

Early symptoms include restlessness, profuse sweating, lack of limb and abdominal-muscle tone, soft skull bones, and developmental delays. Rickets may be associated with chronic renal insufficiency. Probably the kidneys failing to excrete, phosphorus passes into the bowels where it retards the absorption of calcium. Without early treatment, effects may include bowlegs, knock-knees, and beadiness where the ribs meet the breastbone. Rickets is a constitutional disease of infancy and childhood, characterized by impairment of the general health, arrested growth, abnormal proliferation of classification of the developing bone.

Treatment of Rickets

Treatment involves increasing dietary intake of calcium, phosphates and vitamin D. Exposure to ultraviolet in sunshine, cod liver oil , halibut-liver oil, and viosterol are all sources of vitamin D. the foods of the nursing mother also must have adequate vitamins. The food must contain a plenty of fresh milk from a cow fed on green grass, also butter, cream and yolk of egg but not any excess of carbohydrate.