What are the symptoms of rickets in the chest?

Rickets is a bone disease caused by vitamin deficiency. Rickets often occurs in very young children. The condition is not too serious at the beginning, but as the child grows older, it leads to short stature, bone deformation, sweating at night, and often awakening by crying at night. The nervous system is severely stimulated and the harm is relatively large. Patients with rickets often have very serious chest manifestations, such as protruding chest, chest deformity, exposed chest and pigeon chest, poor development of the limbs, leading to muscle atrophy and deformed limbs. It is difficult to lift the head, sit, and walk correctly. There are also problems with the joints, causing joint loosening, which makes it impossible for the patient's joints to stand normally.

Rickets is the abbreviation for a series of diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency. Children with this disease may have the following symptoms:

(I) Psychoneural symptoms: Excessive sweating, night terrors, crying, etc. Excessive sweating is not related to the climate. Due to the stimulation of sweat, children often rub their pillows, resulting in occipital baldness or circular hair loss.

(II) Iliac bone performance 1 Head

(1) Skull softening: an early manifestation of rickets, often seen in infants aged 3 to 6 months

(2) Skull deformity: “square head”, “saddle head” or “cross head”

(3) The anterior fontanelle may close late, and may not close until 2-3 years old. (4) Tooth eruption may be delayed until 1 year old or 3 years old. In severe cases, the teeth are unevenly arranged and the enamel is poorly developed.

(1) Rib bead

(2) Chest deformity: Pectus carinatum; Pectus excavatum 3 Limbs and spine

(2) Lower limb deformity: O-shaped legs (genu valgum) or X-shaped legs (genu valgum)

(3) Spinal curvature: There may be scoliosis or kyphosis. In severe cases, pelvic deformity (hip valgus) may also be seen. Female children with severe cases may suffer from dystocia due to pelvic deformity in adulthood.

(III) Rickets mostly occurs in children aged 2-3 years old. The initial onset is more common in babies around 3 months old. After rickets occurs, the symptoms are mainly mental symptoms. The early manifestations are sweating, crying, restless sleep, and easy to be startled. Due to the excessive sweating on the head, the head becomes itchy. Children often shake their heads and rub the pillows, causing baldness on the occipital area.

The above symptoms can only remind parents that their children may have rickets, and they need to take their children to the hospital for further examination, such as blood biochemical tests, urine calcium determination, etc. Although rickets is mainly caused by vitamin D deficiency in the body, children should not be supplemented with large amounts of vitamin D at will to prevent vitamin D poisoning. If the disease progresses further, the child's muscles will become loose and weak, especially the relaxation of the abdominal wall and intestinal wall muscles, which can cause the child's intestinal bloating and cause the abdomen to swell like a frog's belly. The most important changes in children with rickets are symptoms due to bone lesions, which are the characteristic manifestations of rickets.