Rickets is defined as failure of mineralisation of growing bone or osteoid tissue. Rickets is a metabolic disturbance of home growth and results from dietary lack of vitamin D or ultraviolet rays of sunlight.
Causes of rickets:
Vitamin D disorders
- Nutritional vitamin D deficiency
- Congenital vitamin D deficiency
- Secondary vitamin D deficiency
- Malabsorption
- Increased degradation
- Chronic kidney disease
- Vitamin D dependent rickets
Calcium deficiency
- Low calcium intake
- Diet deficient in calcium
- Premature infants
- Malabsorption
- Dietary inhibitors of calcium absorption
Phosphorus deficiency
- Inadequate intake
- Premature infants
