Scoliosis, commonly known as rickets, is a common cause of bone joint deformities, with various types in clinical practice. The most common is rickets due to vitamin D deficiency, which generally occurs in children. It is considered late-onset rickets in adolescents aged 16 to 17 and osteomalacia in adults. This condition is primarily caused by insufficient vitamin D in food or inadequate exposure to sunlight, which affects calcium and phosphorus absorption.
There is a possibility of intergenerational inheritance of mental retardation from the mother, and it is recommended to undergo pre-pregnancy checks.
A woman asks if her boyfriend’s past diagnosis of hyperthyroidism, which he has since recovered from, will be inherited by their future children.
My son had a sudden epilepsy seizure in August. His father had epilepsy seizures when he was young. My second child is a daughter who is two years old this year. How can I find out if she will also inherit her father’s epilepsy from generation to generation?
Pediatric cerebral palsy is a non-progressive disease, which can be healed in the usual sense through treatment for children with cerebral palsy. Besides children with familial spastic paraplegia, the causes of pediatric cerebral palsy are related to many factors, including genetic factors, infections during pregnancy, maternal diseases, neonatal asphyxia, and neonatal jaundice, etc.
Inquire about the possibility of psoriasis transmission to children and the likelihood of inheritance.
The risk of inheriting diabetes is not absolute, and it often occurs across generations.
The possibility of newborns inheriting hyperthyroidism.