0 a disease that mainly affects children in which their bones become soft and deformed. It is caused by vitamin D deficiency as the result of either a poor diet or insufficient exposure to sunlight -- bệnh còi xương
UNICEF reports that over 550,000 children suffer from rickets in Bangladesh.
This finding had considerable public health implications and resulted in calcium carbonate being added to wartime flour in order to prevent rickets.
They were protagonists of the view that rickets was due to defective hygiene and bad housing.
Recent reports show that rickets is common in many parts of the sub-tropics and tropics.
A poor nutritional state accompanied the condition whilst rickets was an aggravating factor only.
He was discharged with appropriate diet and treatment for anemia and rickets.
Association with rickets and/or chest infection was frequent in the 12-20 month age group.
One-fiftieth of a milligram—that is, about one-fiftieth of a pin's head—of this calciferol each day is all that is needed to prevent rickets.
Or is he prepared to allow the increasing poverty and homelessness on our streets to be accompanied by scurvy and rickets?
