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.
There is not as yet evidence to show that the problem of rickets among school children is returning.
It is calculated to produce the disease of rickets, and therefore it ought to be stopped.
Is it not rather alarming that the figures for rickets are going up when we thought at one time that we had abolished this disease?
I caution against relying on anecdotal reports of rickets in the medical literature on extreme diets.
Rickets was a disease that had disappeared, but it is now reappearing.
The outstanding cure and preventive for rickets was cod liver oil.
He drew attention to the close connection between rickets and enlarged tonsils and adenoids.
Or is he prepared to allow the increasing poverty and homelessness on our streets to be accompanied by scurvy and rickets?
