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How do you prevent rickets?


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2010-11-02 14:15:59
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Rickets are caused by a severe lack of vitamin D. To prevent rickets is to consume vitamin D enriched foods such as butter, eggs, fish oil and green vegetables. (Vitamin D is also formed when the body is exposed to morning sunlight from 8 to 11 o'clock.)


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vitamin D will prevent rickets.

if we don't eat any calcium in our life it will cause rickets

Vitamin D supplements help prevent rickets if given along with breastfeeding for infants. If you are asking for an adult then there really is no way to prevent rickets because you would already have it. Rickets is considered a Vitamin D deficiency and most of the time develops in kids under the age of 5. Vitamin D would also be helpful for people who already have rickets by keeping the symptoms at bay.

It can help prevent rickets, gives you nutrients from the fruit and is enjoyable.

Rickets is due to a deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. Three common causes of rickets include nutritional rickets, hypophosphatemic rickets, and renal rickets.

Yes to help your body produce Vitamin D and so prevent rickets.

No, rickets are not microbes :) :P :O

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

vitamin D along calcium and phosphorus prevent rickets.The sorces are fish, liver oil,eggs,milk and its products.Sunlight also contains vitamin D!

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

by not taking enough vitamin d as a person with rickets does

no ...rickets is caused by vitamin D deficiency

Howard Ricketts discovered how to cure Rickets

In adults, rickets is known as osteomalacia (softening of bones).Rickets was most common in the Victorian era but mostly disappeared in the Western world during the 1940s.Rickets may also occur in baby animals.O.J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets as a child.

Rickets is diagnosed by x-ray examination of leg bones

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.

the only way you can get rickets is by not getting much vitamin d

Rickets is a softening of the bones in children, potentially leading to fractures and deformity.

Rickets affects bones mainly legs,spinalcords...

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

Rickets - is caused by lack of vitamin D in the diet.

Over time it can be. if your child has rickets, then you should improve their diet and get them to a doctor.
