Moms worry about the development of rickets in children. On what grounds can determine that the child rickets?
Let's first define what rickets. Rickets - a disease which occurs due to a lack of calcium and phosphorus in the body of the baby. How dangerous rickets? Rickets leads to disruption of growth retardation, bone deformation, vascular dysfunction.
Painting disease depends on the degree of deficiency of calcium and phosphorus, in which doctors distinguish between three stages of rickets
The main signs of rickets in mild:
- the skull malleable and painful - the baby cries when touched to the head;
- fontanelle slowly closed and not closed in due time
- slight growth retardation;
- irritability child: frequent irritable crying, poor sleep;
- "rolling out the hair" on his head, flattening the back of the head, the formation of bald patches, brittle hair;
- increased sweating;
- delay teething;
- psychomotor retardation (late starts to hold his head up, roll over on its side).
The main signs of rickets in moderate form of:
- more salient features that are inherent to rachitis symptoms mild, in addition:
- chest deformity - thorax has Fallen form, or takes the form of the keel;
- head acquires an unusual shape - flattened head and expressed frontal and parietal protuberances (yagoditseobrazny skull);
- expressed Garrisonova beard - the boundary between the chest and abdomen looks like a groove;
- rounded belly, similar to the frog.
The main signs of rickets in severe:
- deformation of the skull;
- deformation of the chest and limbs;
- strong underdevelopment - both physical and psychomotor;
- labored breathing;
- increased heart rate;
- enlargement of the liver;
- excessive brittle bones that break even at low exposures.
The best way to protect the child from rickets - the prevention of the disease, which begins during the mother's pregnancy. The child should receive breast milk, and my mother to eat during lactation,walk in the fresh air every day, an excellent prevention of rickets - grudnichkovoe swimming, hardening and massage.
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