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Can rickets be cured

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Rickets is caused by a lack of certain minerals in bones due to insufficient levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood. Sufficient vitamin D in the diet is essential for the maintenance of normal calcium and phosphorus levels.

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You will be told the right level of calcium or vitamin D to take, which will depend on age and the cause of the rickets. People who have trouble absorbing vitamins may need a higher dose.

Patients with genetic forms of rickets need slightly different treatment. For hypophosphatemic rickets, a combination of phosphate supplements and a special form of vitamin D is given. Children with other genetic forms of rickets need very large amounts of a special type of vitamin D treatment.

When rickets occurs as a complication of another medical condition, treating the underlying condition will often cure the rickets. For example, kidney disease patients with rickets may require dialysis.

If you have osteomalacia (soft bones), treatment with supplements will usually cure the condition, although it may be several months before bone pain and muscle weakness is relieved. Continue to take vitamin D regularly, otherwise the condition will come back.

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Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D and most commonly occurs in malnourished children. The treatment for rickets is an increase in vitamin D in the diet or if the condition has progressed, surgery may be required.

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No. Never. It is not an infection. It is a nutritional deficiency disease, caused by vitamin D deficiency. Not at all contagious.

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yeah rickets can be cure by high dose of vitamin d, sunlight,and a balanced diet

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Vitamins especially the b vitamins

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Can rickets cure completely?

Rickets are caused by deficiency of Vitamin D in the body. They are most common among children. If discovered timely, rickets can be completely cured by using a mix of medicines and proper diet.


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Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.


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No, rickets is not caused by microbes. Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphate.


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John Rickets has written: 'John Rickets, Byrsa Basilica Sive Regale Excambium'


Do microbes cause rickets?

Rickets is not a microbe. Rickets is a disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D, which is an essential vitamin (that is it is not produced by the body). Body gets vitamin D when sunlight falls on the skin.


How is rickets diagnosed?

Rickets is diagnosed by x-ray examination of leg bones


What nutrient will result in rickets?

Whish mineral deficiency may result in rickets


Can Vitamin D deficiency be cured?

well yes it can be cured just by going out into the sunlight and if you do this for a cupple of mounths your vitamin D deficiency will slowly start to go away.


When did King Charles 1 discover he had rickets?

I have never heard of him having rickets, but if he did , he had doctors at court, so they would have diagnosed that, but usually rickets are a childhood ailment.


What is a sentence using the word rickets?

Rickets is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin D.