In the majority a case rickets develops on the first year of life of the child, and parents should have an idea of its first signs and also of prevention and treatment. This disease arises at the lowered contents in an organism of the salts of calcium necessary for growth of bones. The insufficient amount of vitamin D is the reason of it.
It is required to you
- - air bathtubs in the sun;
- - vitamin D (after consultation with the doctor).
Instruction
1. Vitamin D is formed thanks to ultra-violet sunshine. It intensifies absorption of calcium in intestines, its connection with phosphorus and further adjournment in bones. At deficiency calcium vitamin D becomes less too, than it is required to the child's organism. Because of it bones of the baby become soft and can easily be deformed. Curvatures of legs, the wrong form thorax and the heads and changes in basin bones (at girls in the future it can negatively influence process of childbirth) are as a result observed.
2. Rickets is quite often shown at children on the second month of life (at premature – even earlier). The child becomes irritable, sweats much, sleeps badly. Sweat causes the itch especially severe in a nape; the kid twists a head that leads to baldness. In the started cases at the baby can grow "rachitic gorbik", connected with decrease in a tone of muscles of a back.
3. Under the influence of rickets growth of bones (especially in the lower extremities) slows down. The child will lag behind norm on growth. Proportions of a body can become wrong.
4. The pediatrician on reception can notice softening of edges of a fontanel and occipital bone and also flattening of a skull. The doctor has to recommend a way of treatment that softening of bones did not lead to formation of "furrow" in the lower part of a thorax and to a curvature of legs. Au-shaped deformation of legs during three – usually disappears four years, however H-shaped ("the knocked knees") often remains for the rest of life.