One and a Half-Year-Old Baby’s Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets Treatment Consultation

A one and a half-year-old baby has been diagnosed with rickets, discovered with ribcage outward curvature at six months old and slight calcium deficiency upon hospital examination. The child’s parents have supplemented with Dicalcium Phosphate tablets and started walking at ten months old. However, by one year old, the baby was found to have O-shaped legs, and the outward curvature of the ribcage did not improve. Currently, the child is taking Ikenshin and Dicalcium Phosphate, but bone density tests show no calcium deficiency, and the parents are unsure how to proceed with treatment.
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