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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


Are rickets caused by microbes?

No, rickets is not caused by microbes. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphate.


Why do you get rickets?

It is from a Vitamin D deficiency.


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.


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.