Question
I am a 57-year-old woman. Lately, I’ve been feeling unwell and my mood has been poor, as if I’m sick. What should a child with rickets eat?
Answer
Combining dietary and medication calcium supplementation is most effective. For children in the post-skeletal deformity stage, it’s important to enhance physical exercise, utilizing both active and passive exercises for correction. In cases where there are high risk factors for vitamin D deficiency rickets during growth and development, it’s crucial to prevent premature load-bearing activities (such as preventing early sitting, standing, or bouncing on hands and feet). If there is a recurrence of lower limb deformities, muscle massage can be performed (for O-shaped legs, massage the outer muscles; for X-shaped legs, massage the inner muscles) to increase muscle tension and correct the deformity. Severe skeletal deformities may require surgical correction.