Tahir Saeed Siddiqui.
Respiratory distress: a rare presentation of rickets
J Ayub Med Coll Abottabad Jul - Sep 2006;18(3):67-8.
Ayub Medical College Abbottabad
Nutritional rickets has multiple presentations like skeletal deformities, tetany, hypocalcemic seizures, recurrent diarrhea, dental abnormalities, developmental delay and floppiness. Here a rare presentation of nutritional rickets is reported in five months old baby who had respiratory distress since two months and signs of respiratory distress resolved after start of vitamin-D supplementation.
Category: Case Reports
Keywords: Rickets. Respiratory Distress. Vitamin D.
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