How should my child be treated for rickets? 20

Continue to supplement calcium, which may also be related to posture, usually correct it, some children are not deficient in calcium, and they also have O-shaped legs.

Children with rickets need to take medicines**, you can choose dragon peony strong bone granules, cod liver oil, etc., which are suitable for infants and young babies.

**Rickets basically starts from two aspects:

First, the root cause.

Roots can include:

1. Vitamin D-fortified dairy products.

2. Foods high in vitamin D (such as fatty fish, egg yolks, green vegetables) 3. Supplement vitamin D, calcium and other minerals.

4. Biologically active vitamin D

sufficient, but not too much exposure to sunlight.

2. Symptoms.

Reducing or correcting symptoms may include:

Wear a brace to reduce or prevent bony deformities.

In severe cases, surgery is used to correct the bony deformity.

What is the situation now, how old is the child?

Analysis:

Rickets is a common nutritional deficiency in infancy and early childhood, also known as hypochondriasis. It is mainly caused by vitamin D deficiency and abnormal calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Most of the onset begins after 3 months of birth, and is manifested as crying at night, easy awakening, irritability, excessive sweating, and retrooccipital alopecia.

This is the active early stage of rickets and can last from weeks to months.

Key points of self-diagnosis. Children with mild symptoms may be pale, irritable, easy to wake up from sleep, crying at night, sweating, occipital baldness, skull softening, and square skull. The fontanelle closes too late. Late teething, small and dull tooth shape.

In addition to the above symptoms, severe patients also have chicken breasts and lower limb deformities"0"or "X" shaped legs, spinal curvature, etc.

Medication recommendations. The drug has obvious efficacy, generally supplementing vitamin D and calcium preparations such as calcium lactate, calcium gluconate, etc., but it must be taken under the guidance of a doctor to avoid overdose poisoning.

Traditional Chinese medicine mostly uses methods to nourish the kidney, invigorate qi and nourish blood. You can take Kidney Tonifying Dihuang Pills, Jian'er Le, Longmu Zhuang Bone Powder, Active Calcium Powder, Antelo Accumulation Powder, etc.

Go outside and don't bask in the sun through the glass. Eat more calcium-rich foods. If the ribs or small fish are steamed until the bones rot, they are crushed and fed.

Precautions. Children with rickets should not be given long-term high-dose calcium supplements. Improper use of calcium can cause vitamin D toxicity, proteinuria, renal calcification and other symptoms.

Because the child's resistance is poor, attention should be paid to keeping warm and preventing infection. Do not allow your child to sit, stand, walk, or jump too early, as this may cause deformity and fracture of the limbs.

Mothers should pay attention to calcium supplementation from the 4th month of pregnancy, and pay attention to eating a calcium-rich diet during pregnancy and lactation. Infants under 6 months of age should be breastfed with no less than 1 hour of sun exposure per day. Vitamin D (prophylactic dose, 500-1,000 IU daily) and calcium supplementation should be given as directed by a doctor.

Pay attention to the addition of complementary foods, such as calcium-rich egg yolks can be added in three months.

Guidance: Longmu strong bone granules are strong muscles and bones, and stomach and spleen. For the prevention of rickets and osteomalacia in children; It also has the best effect on children with hyperhidrosis, night terrors, loss of appetite, dyspepsia, developmental retardation and other symptoms.

Ikexin is a calcium supplement, but it is generally taken continuously for no more than half a month, and it should be stopped for a few days.

Consider calcium deficiency. If necessary, trace elements are tested to confirm the diagnosis. After the diagnosis, a ** plan is formulated.

You can take cod liver oil drops and calcium gluconate oral liquid, and you can also take Diqiao calcium**. Inject vitamin D3 injection** if necessary, if there is indigestion and diarrhea need to be active**, avoid affecting calcium absorption, and get more sunlight.

You need to go to the hospital to take your baby for a blood test, X-ray test and trace element test. Rickets is usually caused by a lack of vitamin D and can be treated. If it is serious, you can directly inject D3 into the baby, and generally you can take vitamin D tablets, calcium lactate, calcium gluconate, and Icoxin under the guidance of a doctor.

Usually, you can feed your baby more calcium-rich complementary foods, such as stewed bone broth, fish soup, pork rib soup, etc., or take your baby outdoors to bask in the sun.

First of all, it is necessary to understand that the key to rickets is to supplement vitamin D, not calcium (of course, calcium supplementation is also necessary and indispensable) Secondly, it is necessary to understand that rickets is also divided into degrees, and different programs should be adopted according to different degrees. Normal and mild rickets are only fine with ixosine, and if it is moderate or higher, high doses of vitamin D3** will be considered. At present, vitamin D3 is the first choice for the prevention of moderate or higher rickets.

Vitamin D-deficient rickets.