Rickets in children: symptoms and treatment. How to avoid rickets in a child?

This article will tell about childhood disease rickets. A child who has illuminated this disease for life can remain disabled. That is why we will talk about the symptoms, causes and ways of combating this disease.

If a briefly consider chain development diseases then she is looks about so:

1. Flaw vitamin A D. in body child
2. Decrease concentration phosphorus and calcium
3. Increase functions parathyroid glands, answering per exchange calcium between blood and fabrics bones

In addition this disease rickets maybe to be provoked:

• At renal insufficiency missing enzyme, responsible per education substances—predecessor vitamin A D., what in consequences provokes the above process
  • Reception drugs—anticonvulsants (anticonvulsants drugs). Them reception calls increase splitting vitamin A D.
  • Reinforced display phosphorus from organism, at violation mineral exchange substances or at organic pathologies
  • Hereditary diseases shipping—motor systems

AT group risk children, having inclination to development rachita enter:

•   Small children
  • Premature children
  • Having signs immaturity organs
  • Accepting anticonvulsant therapy
  • Availability syndrome malabsorption
  • FROM pathology liver biliary ways
  • Frequent diseases SARS
  • If a children—twins, twins or if between clans organism mom not managed restore
  • Exceeding in set weight monthly
• Most often rickets develops u infants in winter period time, especially, located on the artificial scrolling

The reasons rachita u children

Rickets develops in connections with violations processes phosphorus—calcium exchange bone fabrics, which, in my turn, develop at insufficient quantity vitamin A D. in children's body.

U children before two -year -old age maybe to be observed so called infantile rickets, in connections with disadvantage vitamins, incoming with products nutrition. AT elder the same age reason is flaw phosphorushypophosphatemia, which it is formed from—per insufficiency renal functions.Most often rickets found u small children.

Signs rachita u children.  Rickets u thoracic children

Infantile rickets in your own development it has 3 basic phases:

• Initial (age from 3 months before 5 months). This phase it is noted nervous and vegetative violations, convulsive syndrome. Child maybe to begin later crawl, but changes forms bones not observed

• Phase help (age from 6 months before 8 months). AT this stages already noticeable curvature bones skulls, which manifests itself thickening in areas parietal bugrov and frontal. At this the occipital bone and parietal bone thin out. Tubular bones later pass stage ossification, this is entails per yourself them thickening. Deformed thoracic cell, she is maybe become concave or convex. Spine acquires kyphotic curvature. Ribs thinking, in two -year -old age at active walking and load on the lower limbs, they start actively bend and accept X—figure, or O—figure forms. All these changes influence and on the muscular frame skeleton, calling pain, convulsions and tone

• Phase recovery (it begins with three -year -old age). U child comes in norm statics and dynamics, spine corrects my form on the correct and bones lower limbs so the same, relatively, restored. Pain in legs calms down

The first signs on the early stages enough common and special attention u parents not call. It begins all with togo, what baby become irritable and poorly sleeping. His appetite too suffers.

However characteristic symptom is increase sweating the back of the head baby. Result what is constant itching, which the provokes baby rub the back of the head about pillow. That's why on the this place it is formed high temple, hair wiped.

Treatment rachita on the early stages

• First what necessary do, this is review diet nutrition. maybe cause consists exactly in this and disease develops on alimentary type. That—there is from—per lack vitamin A in products nutrition. Except this necessary spend analysis content calcium and phosphorus in plasma blood child
• On the early stages, quicker total, all what will be necessary do, this is compensate flaw trace elements at help small quantities vitamin bIODOTS. They are fill up and correct insufficient amount useful substances for child. So the same necessary turn to a nutritionist and he professionally correct diet nutrition sick baby
• At availability signs beginning diseases and early restoration disadvantage trace elements, further treatment maybe not it is necessary and all it will cost only vitamins. However necessary constantly to control level necessary trace elements
• If a not adjust level elements on the beginning diseases, then this is maybe to lead need more serious treatment. Insufficient amount vitamin A D. partly influences on the growth and formation bone fabrics total organism

Treatment rachita u children before of the year

• If a this is initial stage, about which we they wrote above, then all maybe will end on the reception vitamin complexes and correction diets nutrition. it called not specific treatment
• But if more sickly crosses in more serious phase, then treatment not must limit only similar events and treatment assigned complex. Therapy includes in myself procedure UFO and reception drugs vitamin A
• AT beginning diseases, at condition what child filmed and arrows in favorable conditions, assign for therapy water solution vitamin A and citrate mixture. At offensive effect from treatment, dose vitamin A reduced before preventive with initial therapeutic. Child gets preventive dose before two years inclusive. it treatment, in mandatory order, conduct under control analysis on the content calcium in plasma blood and urine
• Necessarily necessary study with child gymnastics and conduct massage, apply salt baths. These manipulations salting nervous system baby and remove tone muscles

Treatment rachita u children after of the year

• AT age from of the year before two years rickets maybe have enough launched stages with curvature bone fabrics and joints. AT so case in addition medication specific and nonspecific therapy necessary intervention orthopedic, maybe even surgeon
• At availability risks fracture bones, important in a timely manner make immobilization limbs or joint with help impositions gypsum or tires
• So the same necessarily conduct courses massage, duration before 25 minutes in quantity 20 massages on the well. This well necessary repeat through each 5 weeks. Massage load must determine doctor, indicated most problematic group muscles, on the which necessary make unloading, for removing pain syndrome

Treatment rachita u children 2 years

This age in treatment is different variety imposed tires and volume immobilization. AT so period diseases restrictions in load on the limbs enough serious.

AT age before 5 years conduct full immobilization and increase load on the lower limbs allowed only at availability in bone fabrics signs calcification. it testifies about effectiveness medication therapy.

Komarovsky treatment rachita u children

Doctor Kamarovsky already known everyone moms, because and we we turn to his recommendations.

We we recommend view video this doctor about symptoms and treatment discussed diseases.

Video: Rickets and vitamin D. — Doctor Komarovsky video

Vitamin D. and rickets

From articles we already we know, what flaw vitamin A—this is the main one cause development pathology. And exactly increase level this vitamin A in body is basic therapy diseases.

For treatment rachita doses reception this vitamin A selected individually, in we list general data about appointments.

AT most cases for treatment assign vitamin D 2 or ergocalcepherol and vitamin D3 or holikalcepherol in the following doses:

For prevention

• Children, born prematurely assign on 10—20 mKG in day
• Children thoracic age before 10 mKG in day
• Children in teenage age before 2.5 mKG in day

For treatment
• At reception doses once this is 10 mg 1 once in month
• At daily reception drug on 100 mKG in day on the length 4 weeks

Repeat, what dose, frendering reception and duration treatment maybe appoint only treating doctor.

Drugs calcium at rachita

• In addition reception vitamin A, necessary support high level calcium in plasma blood, for adequate formation and ossification bone fabrics
• AT these goals assigned drugs calcium, such how calcium gluconate in tablet and injection forms. Calcium maybe to be in composition vitamin and mineral complexes, appointed to kid
• Not costs forget about the diet nutrition baby and enter in him products, with high content this trace element
• Such products are cottage cheese, fermented milk products, yogurts. it important component diets anyone child. Sam milk in clean form contains less amount calcium, suitable for good assimilation in intestines, exactly on this reason not exclude from diets baby correct sour -milk products

Prevention rachita u children

• Prevention discussed diseases start conduct practically with moment birth baby. Everyone they told in school, what vitamin D. in body it is produced under influence sunny rays
• That's why necessary undress baby and give to him possibility accept sunny baths in warm period time, walk with child on the fresh air. AT mandatory order track nursing mom per his own diet nutrition, so how all what eating mother gets baby
• Carefully follow per baby and not skip the first symptoms diseases. If a such were you noticed, not pull and contact to doctor. That's why how neglected disease will lead to disabilities child

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