Diseases

Rickets

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Rickets makes one’s muscles and bones soft. This is mainly observed in children and infants. Rickets is caused due to lack of vitamin d. Vitamin d is needed for calcium to get absorbed into the bones to strengthen them.

SYMPTOMS

Pain areas: in the bones, muscular: cramping, flaccid muscles, or muscle weakness, also common: acquired deformity of chest and rib, bone fracture, bow legs, cavity, deformity of the skull, or slow growth

CAUSES

Nutritional rickets, also called osteomalacia, is a condition caused by vitamin d deficiency. Vitamin d is a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for the normal formation of bonesand teeth and necessary for the appropriate absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the bowels.