MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rickets is a bone problem that affects children. It happens when your child’s bones do not form correctly. Rickets can make your child’s bones hurt, and the bones can bend and break easily.

Detailed explanation-2: -What causes rickets? A lack of vitamin D or calcium is the most common cause of rickets. Vitamin D largely comes from exposing the skin to sunlight, but it’s also found in some foods, such as oily fish and eggs. Vitamin D is essential for the formation of strong and healthy bones in children.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rickets only occurs in growing bones, so it mostly occurs in infants and young children, but it can also occur in teenagers. It is most common when children are growing quickly. Rickets is usually caused by low vitamin D, especially if children also have low calcium or low phosphate intake.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vitamin D deficiency results in rickets in children with growing bones, and osteomalacia in adults with completed growth and closed growth plates [7]. The characteristic features of rickets are centered during the endochondral ossification, which is responsible for the longitudinal growth of long bones.