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A lack of this vitamin leads to rickets particularly in countries without a lot of sunshine Which vitamin is this?
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Vitamin D If you dont have enough vitamin d you can get rickets, rickets is when your bones go soft and they bend. Molly R
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What happens with an insufficient amount of sunshine vitamin?
rickets, weakness, your bones bend or break easily
What is the vitamin needed to prevent rickets?
vitamin D will prevent rickets.
What is ricksetts?
Rickets is a Childhood disease which results from lack of vitamin D and sunshine(which provides much Vitamin D and C) and hinders the metabolism of calcium and phosphrous in the body.
Do microbes cause rickets?
Rickets is not a microbe. Rickets is a disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D, which is an essential vitamin (that is it is not produced by the body). Body gets vitamin D when sunlight falls on the skin.
How does sunshine affect the body?
Yes to help your body produce Vitamin D and so prevent rickets.
Which country is rickets most common in?
Rickets is caused by Vitamin D or calcium deficiency. It can affect people anywhere and of any age, but it mainly affects children in developing countries.
A condition of rickets is associated with a deficiency in which vitamin?
Vitamin D
Why do you get rickets?
It is from a Vitamin D deficiency.
Are rickets caused by microbes?
No, rickets is not caused by microbes. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphate.
What does rickets look like?
rickets is when your bones bend. This is because you do not get enough vitamin D. Vitamin D comes from the sun so be sure to get outside more often or you might get rickets.
What is a sentence using the word rickets?
Rickets is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin D.
What do some children develop rickets?
Rickets - is caused by lack of vitamin D in the diet.
