Symptoms of rickets in babies

The health of the baby is always a very important matter. When parents take care of the baby, they should first pay attention to protecting the baby's physical health and preventing the baby from being harmed by diseases. There are many factors that endanger the baby's health. Among them, rickets is a relatively common problem that can cause great harm to the baby's body. Let's take a look at the symptoms of baby rickets.

What are the symptoms of rickets in children?

Rickets is a relatively common disease, which is often accompanied by sleep disturbance, crying, sweating, occipital baldness, bone changes, etc. The most important manifestation is that the limb motor function is obviously behind that of babies of the same age. For example, walking, sitting, and crawling are all late, which is closely related to calcium deficiency. It is very harmful to the health of children. Calcium supplementation is needed in time. Oral calcium tablets can be taken. In severe cases, calcium injections are needed. While supplementing calcium, you need to get more sun exposure, otherwise the supplemented calcium cannot be absorbed by the body. You need to pay attention.

How to treat rickets in children?

1. General treatment: Adhere to breastfeeding, add foods rich in vitamin D (liver, egg yolks, etc.) in time, and do more outdoor activities to increase the chance of direct sunlight exposure. During the stimulation period, do not let the child sit or stand for a long time to prevent bone deformities.

2. Supplement vitamin D: Take vitamin D orally every day in the initial stage. After 1 month, change to preventive doses. Take orally during the stimulation period, and change to the preventive dose after taking it for 1 month. If you cannot persist in taking the medicine or suffer from diarrhea, you can take vitamin D intramuscularly as a high-dose intensive therapy, and then switch to taking it orally in preventive doses after one month. Take calcium supplements orally for 4 to 5 days before intramuscular injection to avoid iatrogenic hypocalcemic convulsions.

3. Calcium supplements: Calcium supplements should be taken during vitamin D treatment.

4. Orthopedic therapy: Use active and passive exercises to correct bone deformities. Mild skeletal deformities will correct themselves after treatment or during growth. Physical exercise should be strengthened, and active or passive exercises can be performed to correct them, such as push-ups or chest expansion exercises to expand the chest and correct mild pigeon chest and rib valgus. Severe skeletal deformities can be corrected surgically, and surgical correction can be considered after the age of 4 years.