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	RICKETS - LoveToKnow Article on RICKETS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The name rickets is from the Old English wrickken, to twist; the more technical medical term, rachitis, which comes from Greek Mxts, the spine, was suggested by Francis Glisson in 165o, both from similarity of sound and from the part of the body which is one of the first to be affected.
		An acute form of rickets of rare occurrence (really a form of scurvy, q.v.) has been described by writers on diseases of children, in which all the symptoms are of more rapid development and progress, the result in many instances being fatal.
		The treatment of rickets is necessarily more hygienic than medicinal, and includes such preventive measures as may be exercised by strict attention to personal health and nutrition on the part of mothers, especially where there appears to be any tendency to a rickety development in any members of the family.
	91.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RICKETS.htm (1017 words)

	Info and facts on 'Rickets' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Hereditary rickets, is caused by an inherited disease that interferes with the resorption of renal tubular phosphate in the kidney (Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine; urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder).
		Rickets can also be caused by certain liver (Large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; sy) diseases.
		Rickets causes bone pain, slowed growth in children, dental (additional info and facts about dental) problems, muscle (One of the contractile organs of the body) loss and increased risk of fracture (Breaking of hard tissue such as bone) s (easily broken bones).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/rickets.htm (483 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Rickets
		Rickets is a childhood disorder involving softening and weakening of the bones.
		Nutritional causes of rickets occur because of a lack of vitamin D in the diet or in association with malabsorption disorders characterized by poor fat absorption.
		The manifestation is virtually identical to that of rickets in children and that of osteomalacia or osteoporosis in adults.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000344.htm (910 words)

	Rickets - Medical Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Rickets is a vitamin deficiency disease of infancy and early childhood caused by lack of vitamin D. Rickets causes soft bones because vitamin D is not present to assist in calcium and phosphate uptake.
		The classic image of advanced rickets sufferers is of bow legs and a deformed chest and skull, with prominent frontal and parietal bones causing a distinctive "square headed" appearance.
		"Rickets" is a corruption of "rachitis", a disease of the "rachis", or spinal column.
	www.nursingstudy.com /encyclopedia/Rickets.html (211 words)

	AllRefer.com - rickets (Pathology) - Encyclopedia
		rickets or rachitis[rukI´tis] Pronunciation Key, bone disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin D or calcium.
		Rickets is no longer common in developed countries because milk is readily obtained and is usually fortified with vitamin D; infants commonly receive vitamin D as a supplement.
		Treatment of rickets is largely preventive, i.e., by early recognition and by including adequate amounts of vitamin D and calcium in the diet.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/rickets.html (290 words)

	Rickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Rickets is a bone disease of infancy and early childhood.
		Rickets is a bone disease of infancy and early childhood characterised by soft and weakened bones.
		Rickets is caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphorus.
	www.disability.vic.gov.au /dsonline/dsarticles.nsf/pages/Rickets?OpenDocument (959 words)

	Scabies & Rickets
		Causes, incidence, and risk factors: Rickets is a disorder caused by insufficiency or inefficient action of activated vitamin D in the body during childhood.
		Rickets from a dietary lack of these minerals is rare because calcium and phosphorous are present in milk and green vegetables.
		Occasionally, rickets may be caused in children with disorders of the liver or biliary (liver secretion) system, when fats and vitamin D are inadequately absorbed or when the vitamin D is not converted to its active form.
	www.rain.org /~medmall/ask/specialties/scabies.html (1276 words)

	Dietary Deficiencies & Other Conditions :: Rickets in Chinese Children
		Rickets is a failure of the proper development (mineralization) of growing bone (view photo).
		The predominant cause of rickets in orphanages abroad is nutritional deficiency of vitamin D due either to inadequate direct exposure to ultraviolet rays in sunlight or to inadequate intake of vitamin D, or both.
		Moderate to severe rickets may require higher doses of vitamin D for longer periods of time and this must be supervised by a pediatrician who has experience in treating rickets.
	www.orphandoctor.com /medical/commondiseases/dietary/ricketschinese.html (946 words)

	ENLmedical.com: Conditions And Concerns: Medical Encyclopedia: Rickets
		Rickets is a disorder caused by insufficiency or inefficient action of activated vitamin D in the body during childhood.
		Nutritional causes of rickets occur with a lack of vitamin D in the diet or with malabsorption disorders characterized by poor fat absorption, including steatorrhea, sprue, and short bowel syndrome.
		Rickets may be avoided by maintaining an adequate intake of calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin D.
	www.enlmedical.com /article/000344.htm (991 words)

	Vitamin D Deficiency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Rickets in children was a wide spread problem in smoggy, industrial urban areas in the early nineteen hundreds, especially in England.
		The reason for this was to prevent rickets from a deficiency of vitamin D. The health benefits of cod liver oil is that it is one of the few foods with appreciable amounts of this important vitamin.
		However, some physicians are concerned that rickets may be making an unwelcome comeback in recent years due to the trend of avoidance of sun exposure for children combined with the growing popularity of rice and soy based beverages, which may not always be vitamin D fortified.
	www.healthmart.com /supplements/vitamin-d-deficiency.html (509 words)

	Rickets Re-Emerging, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
		The condition, nutritional rickets, usually results from a deficiency of vitamin D. This impairs the body's ability to absorb calcium from the diet, resulting in poor bone development.
		At the beginning of the 20th century, nutritional rickets was a common disease, particularly among infants in urban areas of the United States.
		The study and the editorial accompanying it conclude that the re-emergence of rickets is due to an increase in breastfeeding in infants who do not receive supplemental vitamins.
	www.cincinnatichildrens.org /about/news/release/2000/8-rickets.htm?view=content (698 words)

	Vitamin D, Cod-Liver Oil, Sunlight, and Rickets: A Historical Perspective -- Rajakumar 112 (2): 132 -- Pediatrics
		rickets was endemic in the Southwest counties of Dorset and
		for the conquest of rickets as a malady.
		Infantile rickets: the significance of clinical, radiographic and chemical explanations in its diagnosis and incidence.
	pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/112/2/e132 (2554 words)

	Macrobiotics and Rickets
		Rickets occurs when the metabolites of vitamin D are deficient.
		I firmly believe that if macrobiotics is practiced properly and with good variety, rickets is not a concern, so I would advise parents who are concerned about the problem to see a macrobiotic counselor and enroll in cooking classes to prevent the problem from happening and to feel more secure about their practice.
		If, for instance, dark-skinned (Asian or African, etc) macrobiotics move to Glasgow (the seat of rickets in the 1620s), they would be well-advised to provide their infants with a source of "vitamin D", and this would effectively prevent them from developing rickets.
	www.macrobiotics.co.uk /ricketsreview.htm (1983 words)

	N101 \| Rickets/Osteomalacia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Rickets is an abnormal bone formation in children resulting from inadequate calcium in their bones.
		Rickets can also be caused by conditions that impair absorption of vitamin D and/or calcium, even when these nutrients are consumed in appropriate amounts.
		Rickets is more likely to occur in a child consuming a pure vegan diet (which does not include animal products and thus no vitamin D) than in a child consuming milk or other animal foods.
	www.n101.com /HealthNotes/HNs/Concern/Rickets.htm (964 words)

	ARS \| Publication request: Calcium Absorption in Nigerian Children with Rickets
		Calcium absorption was assessed in 15 children with active rickets (2-8 y of age) and in 15 age- and sex-matched children without rickets by using a dual-tracer stable-isotope method.
		In Nigerian children with rickets, the capacity to absorb calcium is not impaired; however, fractional calcium absorption increases after the resolution of active disease.
		Calcium absorption may be inadequate to meet the skeletal demands of children with rickets during the active phase of the disease, despite being similar to that of control children.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=169216&pf=1 (467 words)

	Rickets, Vitamin D Deficiency
		Vitamin-D Deficiency Rickets, a disorder that becomes apparent during infancy or childhood, is characterized by insufficient amounts of vitamin D in the body.
		Vitamin-D Deficiency Rickets can be caused by a lack of vitamin D in the diet, a lack of exposure to the sun, or malabsorption syndromes in which there is an inability of the intestines to adequately absorb nutrients from foods.
		Rickets is more common in regions of Asia where there is a lack of daylight and/or low intake of meat due to a vegetarian diet.
	hw.healthdialog.com /kbase/nord/nord883.htm (1539 words)

	CC051.1: Neanderthal rickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Evidence of rickets is easily detectable, especially on the ends of the long bones of the body.
		He said the fossil had rickets in early childhood, head injuries in middle age, and arthritis in old age.
		Lubenow attributes rickets to a post-Flood ice age, with heavy cloud cover, shelter, and clothing, and a lack of vitamin D. But the greatest differences from modern humans, seen in Homo erectus, are found mostly in tropical areas.
	www.talkorigins.org /indexcc/CC/CC051_1.html (154 words)

	Calcium Helps Children With Rickets
		Rickets is rarely seen in Europe or North America because children who live in these countries eat foods fortified with vitamin D, note Dr. Philip Fischer of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and his international team of researchers.
		Because vitamin D is manufactured in the skin on exposure to sunlight, the cause of rickets in regions of the world with ample sunlight "remains an enigma." Some studies have suggested that a lack of calcium in a child's diet may also cause rickets.
		The researchers conclude that the children with rickets in the study had a low calcium intake, and that "dietary supplementation with calcium or a combination of calcium and vitamin D healed the rickets."
	www.personalmd.com /news/a1999081810.shtml (416 words)

	SARPV Bangladesh :: Rickets
		Rickets is a problem that SARPV is currently trying to address in Bangladesh.
		The incidence of rickets' deformities in the global population of the Cox's Bazar district is about 1,5 %.
		The rickets are very active between 2 and 5 years.
	www.sarpv.net /rickets.htm (783 words)

	Food for Thought: Rickets on the Rise?
		March 29, 2001 -- When Bianca Arrington's breastfed 7-month-old son Japhet had a seizure one day, she never thought the diagnosis would ultimately be rickets, a disease essentially caused by a kind of malnutrition and thought to be a disease of the past in industrialized nations.
		Rickets is a disease typically caused by vitamin D deficiency; the classic symptom is weakened or deformed bones.
		After reviewing hospital records between January 1997 and June 1999, the CDC identified six cases of children with rickets and three cases of children with another disease, called protein energy malnutrition (PEM), that were not related to abnormalities present at birth or to chronic infection.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/31/1728_75924.htm (917 words)

	Medindia - About Rickets
		Rickets is a deficiency of Vitamin D which is also known by many other names like Osteomalacia, Renal Osteodystrophy, Paediatric Osteomalacia, Vitamin D deficiency and Renal Rickets.
		This disease involves softening and weakening of bones in children due to deficiency of Vitamin D. This softening occurs from a loss of the mineral calcium from the skeleton as a result of which bones become flexible and gradually are molded by forces, such as bearing weight, that are exerted on them.
		Rickets is most likely to occur during periods of rapid growth, when the body demands high levels of calcium and phosphate.
	www.medindia.net /Patients/PatientInfo/rickets.asp (208 words)

	PROVET HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Rickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		You should seek the advice of your veterinarian if your pet is ill as only he or she can correctly advise on the diagnosis and recommend the treatment that is most appropriate for your pet.
		Rickets is a condition that causes deformities - swelling of the joints and bending of the long bones in young growing animals.
		Fortunately, pets fed on a complete, balanced ration get adequate amounts of minerals and vitamin D in their food and so they do not develop rickets, and TRUE rickets is actually very rare in clinical practice in affluent societies today.
	www.provet.co.uk /petfacts/healthtips/rickets.htm (270 words)

	The Rickets Scare: BBC Takes A Cheap Shot At Islamic Dress Code
		The story about rickets that was posted on the BBC web site on 5 February 2001, is not only misleading and irresponsible, it borders on sensationalism and shows deep-rooted anti-Islamic prejudice.
		Rickets is a vitamin D deficiency disease of the children.
		First, rickets is a childhood disease, and the Islamic dress code for women does not apply to 2 year olds.
	albalagh.net /current_affairs/rickets.shtml (681 words)

	Rickets definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Once the role of vitamin D in rickets was discovered, cod liver oil (which is rich in vitamin D) became a favored, if not too tasty, remedy.
		The word "rickets" is probably a corruption of "rachitis" which came from the Greek "rhachis" (spine) + the suffix -"itis" (inflammation).
		Before the causes of rickets were discovered, rickets (which is also called "rachitis") was believed to be an inflammatory disease of the spine.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6714 (492 words)

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