The baby is showing symptoms of loss of appetite, excessive sweating, and easy excitability, and parents are worried whether it’s rickets.
The baby’s walking in an in-toe gait. After a hospital visit and examination, the doctor diagnosed it as O-shaped legs. A blood test for bone alkaline phosphatase (BALP) showed results within the range of 200-225 (reference value < 200). The 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level was 25.59 (reference value 35-150). What do these results mean? Was the clinical diagnosis of rickets due to calcium deficiency or vitamin D deficiency?
Doctors provide answers on whether babies with a puffy head need calcium supplements.
The baby has had surgery and it’s now been three months. We’ve noticed that the baby urinates whenever he cries or when he needs to urinate, and he can’t hold it back. I would like to ask, does the child hurt after urethral ruptureure surgery?
Neonatal jaundice recurs after mixed feeding, questioning whether it is related to biliary atresia.
Is Osteomalacia Equivalent to Rickets?
Pediatric biliary ascariasis typically does not affect vision, but should be treated with deworming medication and attention to dietary hygiene.
Pediatric concussion usually does not cause fever, but may be accompanied by symptoms such as headache, dizziness, and nausea.
Pediatric hernia surgery may affect development, and if the child has pain symptoms, timely treatment should be sought.
If a one-year-old baby gets colored pencil ink on their hands and can’t wash it off, and they dislike sucking their fingers, is there a risk of poisoning if they suck the ink clean?