Average rating
Cast your vote
You can rate an item by clicking the amount of stars they wish to award to this item.
When enough users have cast their vote on this item, the average rating will also be shown.
Star rating
Your vote was cast
Thank you for your feedback
Thank you for your feedback
Issue Date
2011-09
Metadata
Show full item recordOther Titles
[Rickets in a child]Citation
Læknablaðið 2011, 97 (9):477-80Abstract
Vitamin D is necessary for normal bone growth. Deficiency of vitamin D can lead to rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. It is difficult to reach the recommended daily dose of vitamin D in children without cod liver oil or other vitamin D supplementation. Several cases of rickets have been diagnosed in Iceland the past few years. Studies suggest a worldwide increase in the prevalence of the disorder. We report on a girl who was diagnosed with rickets at the age of 27 months. She received inadequate amounts of vitamin D supplementation in the form of AD drops and cod liver oil. Because of food allergy she was on a restricted diet which limited her intake of dietary vitamin D. After diagnosis, she received a high-dose vitamin D therapy (Stoss therapy) which corrected the deficiency. Key words: rickets, food allergy, vitamin D.D-vítamín er mikilvægt fyrir eðlilegan beinvöxt og getur skortur leitt til beinkramar í börnum og beinmeyru í fullorðnum. Mikilvægasti D-vítamíngjafi á Íslandi er lýsi en erfitt er að ná ráðlögðum dagsskammti D-vítamíns án lýsis eða annars D-vítamíngjafa. Allmörg tilfelli beinkramar hafa greinst hér á landi á undanförnum árum en erlendar rannsóknir sýna að sjúkdómurinn er vaxandi vandamál um allan heim. Hér er sagt frá stúlku sem greindist með beinkröm 27 mánaða gömul. Hún var á brjósti í tæpt ár og fékk D-vítamínviðbót með AD-dropum og þorskalýsi en ekki í nægilegu magni. Fæðuofnæmi gerði það að verkum að hún nærðist á einhæfu fæði sem innihélt takmarkað D-vítamín. Eftir greiningu var hafin háskammta D-vítamínmeðferð (Stoss meðferð) sem leiðrétti skortinn.
Additional Links
http://www.laeknabladid.is/Collections