Natural remedies for Rickets

Rickets is a deficiency disease due to which the bones are softened and deformed. It is prevalent among infants and young children. It usually makes its appearance at teething.

 
Symptoms of Rickets

• The child is restless.
• Pale with flabby and toneless muscles.
• Limbs assume unnatural postures.
• Excessive sweating of the head.
• Protruding abdomen.
• Soft bones that can be easily bent.
• Joints lose their shape and are unable to function properly.
• In young infants skull bones are remarkably soft, head is flattened on one side, chest is deformed and the child is unable to crawl or sit up.

 Causes of Rickets

• Deficiency of Vitamin D gives rise to rickets.
• Sunlight prevents rickets.
• But smoke in the cities, keeping the child away from sunlight; being born to weak and sickly parents, people with wrong style of living and faulty diet, or people with venereal disease who were not completely cured maybe affected.

 
Natural Treatment of Rickets

• The child should be breast-fed for 1 year or fed with cow or goats milk. Other foods should be introduced gradually with more emphasis on fruits, steamed vegetables, whole grain cereals and milk.
• Milk, butter, cream, fish liver oil and eggs rich in Vitamin D should be given in liberal quantities.
• Intake of calcium is also very necessary. A young child with Rickets should drink at least 500 milliliters of milk per day. An adequate intake of iron and ascorbic acid is also necessary.
• The child should be cleared of unnecessary clothing and should be allowed to enjoy sunshine and fresh air.
• Light massage twice a week is also beneficial.

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