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Rickets is a deficiency disease if you have a lack of Vitamin d. Rickets is when the bones soften and start to disintegrate, you can get Vitamin A through citrus fruits and vegetables and also through sunlight. It is mainly common in young children, especially young dark skinned children, for they don't collect as much sunlight.
dark skinned people collect the most sun!
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y ago- In adults, rickets is known as osteomalacia (softening of bones).
- Rickets was most common in the Victorian era but mostly disappeared in the Western world during the 1940s.
- Rickets may also occur in baby animals.
- O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets as a child.
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What bone disease is called by the lack of calcium in the diet?
Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.
Where can you get Rickets?
how do u get rickets
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 has the author John Rickets written?
John Rickets has written: 'John Rickets, Byrsa Basilica Sive Regale Excambium'
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.
What nutrient will result in rickets?
Whish mineral deficiency may result in rickets
How is rickets diagnosed?
Rickets is diagnosed by x-ray examination of leg bones
When did King Charles 1 discover he had rickets?
I have never heard of him having rickets, but if he did , he had doctors at court, so they would have diagnosed that, but usually rickets are a childhood ailment.
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.
How could a person get rickets?
the only way you can get rickets is by not getting much vitamin d
What is the vitamin needed to prevent rickets?
vitamin D will prevent rickets.
