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A Unique Child Health: Sun up!
Nursery World,
17 January 2008
Practitioners can help parents prevent the resurgence in rickets with some important advice, says Ruth Thomson.
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the incidence of tuberculosis, but now another 'Victorian' disease is on the rise. Rickets, caused by vitamin D deficiency, is staging a comeback, prompting the Government to recommend that pregnant or breastfeeding women boost their vitamin D intake in the darker winter months. What is rickets? Rickets is a bone disease that can lead to bone deformities, stunted growth and general ill-health. Symptoms in children include: - tender swollen joints - bone pain and tenderness -...
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