Question
When I have rickets symptoms, what foods should I eat more of?
Answer
Rickets or vitamin D deficiency rickets is a systemic, chronic, and nutritional disease characterized by bone damage. It is caused by insufficient vitamin D in infants and adolescents, leading to disordered calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The disease features incomplete ossification of the epiphyseal plate at the ends of long bones and incomplete fibrosis of mature bone due to insufficient vitamin D. For full-term infants fed breast milk or partially breastfed, 400 IU of vitamin D per day is recommended. Premature infants, low birth weight infants, and twins should digest 800 IU of vitamin D per day starting two weeks after birth.