PMID: 1196321Nov 1, 1975Paper

Ten years' daily prophylaxis against rickets--review and outlook (author's transl)

Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde
W Gladel

Abstract

Ten years of experience with daily prophylaxis of rickets brought about isolated knowledge which corrected old mistakes and demands a revision of older attitudes towards the usual prophylaxis. Prophylaxis of vitamin D according to the most modern and reliable knowledge in the best way promotes the growth and mineralisation of the skeleton with dosages of 400 to 800 I.U. smaller or higher dosages are disadvantageous. By observing the above given dosage, rickets and hypercalcaemia are rare and only conceivable under special pathological conditions. The diagnosis of beginning rickets must be well known, otherwise unspecific symptoms of rickets may induce the administration of unnecessarily high amounts of vitamin D. The symptoms of rickets show a gradual increase: the increase of serum alkaline phosphatase precedes the clinical and radiological symptoms. The reliable radiographic deformities of the hand can first be seen at the Ulna, then at the Radius and later at the secondary centers of Metacarpals. Among the relatively reliable clinical symptoms there its first the rosary later the Marfan-sign and eventually the deformation of the long bones. For infants protected by vitamin D, craniotabes as a sign of rickets is completely un...Continue Reading

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