Increasing vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy can drastically reduce the risk of an infant developing rickets, a childhood condition marked by weakened, softened bones. Results of a recent ...

Now that breastfeeding has returned to favor, rickets and vitamin D deficiency have re-emerged in the infant population. This change was first documented in the 1980s and has continued to increase in ...

It is generally agreed that a number of types of nutritional deficiencies, including vitamin D-deficient rickets, can cause a temporary state of immune deficiency. As a result, children with rickets ...

Premature babies, born before that vitamin D transfer happens, are at even higher risk for a deficiency. The disease usually becomes apparent when a child starts to walk and puts pressure on the bones ...

An issue with breastfeeding is that when the mother is deficient in vitamin D, her milk has limited transfer of vitamin D and its metabolites. Consequently, unless her infant receives ultraviolet ...

Rickets is a bone problem that affects children. It happens when your child’s bones do not form correctly. Rickets can make your child’s bones hurt, and the bones can bend and break easily. Children ...

Over the past 20 y, a resurgence in vitamin D deficiency and nutritional rickets has been reported throughout the world, including the United States. Inadequate serum vitamin D concentrations have ...

On Friday during the daily COVID-19 updates by the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mercy Mwangangi, the Health Cabinet Assistant Secretary (CAS) announced that among the 11 lives lost to COVID -19 was a child ...