Misuse of calcium, VD, and cod liver oil to prevent and treat rickets

The misconceptions of most new parents:

Misunderstanding 1: Call rickets "calcium deficiency."

Therefore, some parents believe that calcium supplementation is to prevent rickets. Although this understanding is significantly reduced compared with the past, it still exists.

Vitamin D deficient rickets is a chronic nutritional disease mainly caused by insufficient vitamin D in the body, resulting in abnormal metabolism of calcium and phosphorus."Calcium deficiency" is secondary to vitamin D deficiency. Of course, there are also some children who simply lack calcium intake, or both. In other words, insufficient V-D, insufficient calcium intake, or both can lead to rickets, and the most common is V-D deficiency. Therefore, calling rickets calcium deficiency is inappropriate and can easily cause people to misunderstand.

Due to this misunderstanding, without the guidance of a doctor, some parents attach great importance to calcium supplementation and give their children a