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Vitamin D. Vitamin D is essential, along with calcium and phosphorous , to healthy bone growth. Lack of it can softening and weakening of the bones, leading to delayed growth, bowed legs, and other deformities, which are the symptoms of rickets. Even if one has a diet with plenty of calcium, vitamin D is still essential for helping the body absorb that calcium.
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What is the vitamin needed to prevent rickets?
vitamin D will prevent rickets.
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.
A lack of this vitamin leads to rickets particularly in countries without a lot of sunshine Which vitamin is this?
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
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.
How could a person get rickets?
the only way you can get rickets is by not getting much vitamin d
What do some children develop rickets?
Rickets - is caused by lack of vitamin D in the diet.
What is the cause of anemia night blindness and rickets?
Anaemia is a deficiency of iron, night blindness is a deficiency if vitamin A and rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D.
How are rickets caused?
Lack of Vitamin D
