Meanings of nutritional rickets in anglès

We conclude that nutritional rickets is a tricky diagnosis, but is preventable.

In 2016, a global consensus on the prevention, diagnosis and management of nutritional rickets was published.

But in the early years of the 21st century, nutritional rickets has reared its head again in Ireland.

Despite of these recommendations two cases of severe nutritional rickets among children of emigrants were discovered upon hospital admission.

Some of the most compelling evidence to this effect comes from case reports of nutritional rickets in children with ASD.

We conclude that updated global recommendations for therapy of nutritional rickets complement previously published position statements for Australia and New Zealand.

We report on 1 such case that, to our knowledge, is the first report of nutritional rickets in ASD necessitating corrective surgery.

The patient was diagnosed with nutritional rickets due to inadequate vitamin D intake, a consequence of severe food selectivity associated with ASD.

Since first described almost a century ago, vitamin D preparations have been successfully used as a public health intervention to prevent nutritional rickets.

We will also highlight that despite the wealth of historical data and multiple preventative strategies, nutritional rickets remains a significant public health disorder.

Key points are: (i) The International Consensus document is focused on nutritional rickets, whereas the ANZ guidelines were focused on vitamin D deficiency.

Nutritional rickets has both skeletal and extraskeletal manifestations.