Patient's question:
When I have symptoms of rickets, what should I eat more of?Doctor's answer:
Rickets or vitamin D deficiency rickets is a systemic, chronic, and nutritional disease characterized by bone damage, caused by vitamin D deficiency in infants and adolescents, leading to disordered calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The characteristic of rickets is the incomplete fibrosis of the growth plate cartilage and bone tissue in the long bones, and the mature bone is also incompletely fibrotic due to vitamin D deficiency. For full-term infants who are breastfed or partially breastfed, 400 IU of vitamin D per day should be supplemented. Premature infants, low birth weight infants, and twins should be given 800 IU of vitamin D per day after birth for 2 weeks.