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Rickets, scientific nomenclature: rachitis (from Greek ῥαχίτης rhakhítēs, [6] meaning 'in or of the spine'), is a condition that results in weak or soft bones in children and may have either dietary deficiency or genetic causes. [2] Symptoms include bowed legs, stunted growth, bone pain, large forehead, and trouble sleeping.
Nutritional rickets is an important cause of childhood genu varum or bow legs in some parts of the world. Nutritional rickets is due to unhealthy life style habits as insufficient exposure to sun light which is the main source of vitamin D. Insufficient dietary intake of calcium is another contributing factor.
Osteomalacia in children is known as rickets, and because of this, use of the term "osteomalacia" is often restricted to the milder, adult form of the disease. Signs and symptoms can include diffuse body pains, muscle weakness, and fragility of the bones.
It was then licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration in June 2018 [41] Burosumab is shown to target the major symptoms of XLH by decreasing elevated alkaline phosphatase and normalizing severe hypophosphatemia, leading to substantial improvement of rickets in child and adolescent patients.
An ultrasound image showing the unusual positioning and a description of the contributing circumstances were recently published in a journal.
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Nutritional rickets arises from unhealthy life style habits as insufficient exposure to sun light which is the main source of vitamin D. Insufficient dietary intake of calcium is another contributing factor. [4] [2] Genu valgum may arise from rickets caused by genetic abnormalities, called vitamin D-resistant rickets or X-linked hypophosphatemia.
Symptoms and signs [ edit ] There is a remarkable variety of symptoms that depends, largely, on the age of the patient at initial presentation, ranging from death in utero to relatively mild bone problems with or without dentition symptoms [ 10 ] in adult life although neurological and extra-skeletal symptoms are also reported. [ 11 ]