Vitamin D deficiency disease

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency disease

Description of Vitamin D deficiency disease

Vitamin D deficiency disease (medical condition): A rare condition where a lack of Vitamin D results in bone disease as it is essential for the process of bone calcification.

See also:

Rickets:
  »Introduction: Rickets
  »Symptoms of Rickets
  »Causes of Rickets
  »Tests for Rickets
  »Treatments for Rickets

Vitamin D deficiency disease: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Vitamin D deficiency disease:

• Vitamin D deficiency
• Vitamin D
• Deficiency disease
• Vitamin
• Deficiency

Vitamin D deficiency disease as a Disease

Vitamin D deficiency disease: Another name for Rickets (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Rickets
  »Symptoms of Rickets
  »Causes of Rickets
  »Treatments for Rickets

Vitamin D deficiency disease: Related Diseases

Vitamin D deficiency disease: Vitamin D deficiency disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Vitamin deficiency
• Vitamin D deficiency

Causes of Vitamin D deficiency disease

Some of the causes of Vitamin D deficiency disease are included in the list below:

• Vitamin D deficiency
• Inadequate sunlight exposure
• Dietary deficiency of Vitamin D
• Malabsorption
• Kidney disease

See full list of 60 causes of Vitamin D deficiency disease (Rickets)

Symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency disease (Rickets)

Some of the symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency disease incude:

• Infant rickets symptoms:
  • Deformed skulls
  • Late-closing fontanelles
  • Rib-breastbone joint enlargement
  • Delayed sitting

See full list of 35 symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency disease (Rickets)

Treatments for Vitamin D deficiency disease (Rickets)

Treatments for Vitamin D deficiency disease (Rickets) include:

• Adequate diet
• High-calcium high-phosphorous diet
• Vitamin D supplements
• Cod liver oil
• Calcium - possibly used if condition is caused by calcium deficiency

See full list of 6 treatments for Vitamin D deficiency disease

Treatment of Vitamin D deficiency disease: For more treatment information about Vitamin D deficiency disease, see treatment of Rickets (Vitamin D deficiency disease)

Vitamin D deficiency disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Vitamin D deficiency disease:

• infantile osteomalacia
• juvenile osteomalacia
• rachitis
• vitamin D deficiency
• skeletal deformity
• growth disturbance
• hypocalcemia
• tetany
• rickets
• osteoid
• nutritional rickets
• craniotabes
• familial hypophosphatemia rickets

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