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Rickets means abnormal and soft bones. You have less amount of calcium deposited in the bones. Rickets is caused by deficiency of vitamin D. Most of the vitamin D is produced, when you are exposed to morning sun light. You get rickets in case of children. You get osteomalacia in case of adult due to same reason. You have to expose the baby in morning sun light. Most of the physicians will prefer to give vitamin D supplementation to the child. You can give 60,000 I U of vitamin D, say monthly or once in two months, till the condition is cured. If baby is not drinking enough milk, you should give extra 'calcium' supplement.
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What nutrient is required to help prevent rickets?
if we don't eat any calcium in our life it will cause rickets
What is the vitamin needed to prevent rickets?
vitamin D will prevent rickets.
What diet supplement would help to prevent rickets?
Vitamin D supplements help prevent rickets if given along with breastfeeding for infants. If you are asking for an adult then there really is no way to prevent rickets because you would already have it. Rickets is considered a Vitamin D deficiency and most of the time develops in kids under the age of 5. Vitamin D would also be helpful for people who already have rickets by keeping the symptoms at bay.
Why did pirates get rickets?
Cause they had no sunlight underwater
Is rickets can be cause of short height in a child of 3 years?
Rickets can cause short stature in children. However there are also many other possible causes.
Lack of vitamin D cause which disease?
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.
Which foods would prevent rickets and scurvy?
Foods high in vitamin C.
How do you prevent rickets?
Rickets are caused by a severe lack of vitamin D. To prevent rickets is to consume vitamin D enriched foods such as butter, eggs, fish oil and green vegetables. (Vitamin D is also formed when the body is exposed to morning sunlight from 8 to 11 o'clock.)
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.
What are the health benefits of lemonade?
It can help prevent rickets, gives you nutrients from the fruit and is enjoyable.
What disease is caused by a lack of vitamin D cause?
scurvy
