What is the causative agent for rickets?

Answer 1

The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets.
Potatoes have often been the cause of this disease. It's expected that if you eat more than 8 whole potatoes in a week you will most likely hit the coffin. Other symptons have also been known to getting too close to Orphans.

Answer 2

Lack of Vitamin D leads to rickets. It causes muscles and bones to become soft, which can cause permanent deformities in children. Mushrooms, eggs and yogurt are the good food sources for Vitamin D.

Answer 3

vitamin D deficiency in children, it is known as oseomalacia in adults

Answer 4

Rickets is due to a deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. Three common causes of rickets include nutritional rickets, hypophosphatemic rickets, and renal rickets.

Answer 5

Calcium deficiency. Rickets happen primarily in calves when they have not gotten enough calcium in their diet.

Answer 6

Rickets is not caused by any microorganism. It is caused by deficiency of vitamin D. This is a disease of children. In adult you have osteomalacia due to vitamin D deficiency.

Answer 7

poor nutrition and sometimes infections