Rickets

Sign/Symptoms
Bone Fractures Bone Growth Abnormal Growth Impairment or Stunted Muscle Spasm (Twitching) Muscle Weakness Pain Bone Pain Spine Short Stature Spine Curvature (Scoliosis)

Drugs
Cholecalciferol

Treatments
Vitamins Vitamin D3 Strongly in Favour High Evidence Lifestyle Changes Bracing Weakly in Favour Low Evidence

Attributes
Age = Infant Commonality is rare

Further Tests
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) Concentration Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) (Increased) Calcium Concentration (Blood, Total) Calcium (Blood, Total) (Decreased) Parathyroid Hormone Concentration Parathyroid hormone (PTH, Parathormone) (Increased) Phosphate Concentration (PO4, Phosphorus) Phosphate (PO4, Phosphorus, P) (Decreased) Urine Amino Acid Concentration Alanine (Urine) (Increased) Alpha Aminoadipic Acid (Urine) (Increased) Alpha Amino N Buryric Acid (Urine) (Increased) Arginine (Urine) (Increased) Asparagine (Urine) (Increased) Carnosine (Urine) (Increased) Aspartic Acid (Urine) (Increased) Citrulline (Urine) (Increased) Cystine (Urine) (Increased) Glutamic Acid (Urine) (Increased) Glutamine (Urine) (Increased) Glycine (Urine) (Increased) Histidine (Urine) (Increased) Isoleucine (Urine) (Increased) Lysine (Urine) (Increased) Methionine (Urine) (Increased) 1 Methylhistidine (Urine) (Increased) 3 Methylhistidine (Urine) (Increased) Ornithine (Urine) (Increased) Phenylalanine (Urine) (Increased) Phosphoserine (Urine) (Increased) Phosphoethanolamine (Urine) (Increased) Proline (Urine) (Increased) Taurine (Urine) (Increased) Threonine (Urine) (Increased) Tyrosine (Urine) (Increased) Valine (Urine) (Increased) Serine (Urine) (Increased)

Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:

Vitamin D [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]:

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help in preventing some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present. Please note, this acts as a PREVENTATIVE treatment, and not necessarily symptomatic relief.

Recommendation: strongly in favor (Studies have shown that a Vitamin D can help to prevent and treat rickets)

Grade of Evidence: high quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

Summary References

Treatments:

1. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/vitamin-d

2. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD006164/frame.html

3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10824056

4. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcb.10338/abstract

5. http://pain-topics.org/pdf/vitamind-report.pdf

6. http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1185/030079908X253519

7. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article756975.ece

8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17556697

9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18065602

10. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/vitamind.html

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