Question
How to handle excessive perspiration in children with rickets?
Answer
Children with rickets often experience excessive sweating, which is due to their abnormal calcium-phosphorus metabolism leading to increased metabolism. During infancy, due to the higher water content in the skin and dense distribution of tiny blood vessels, combined with rapid growth and development, metabolism is vigorous, and children usually sweat more. However, the excessive sweating in rickets patients is different from that in healthy children of the same age, which may be due to abnormal sweat regulation caused by either excessively high or low sympathetic nervous system excitability.