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Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets and Vitamin B 12 Deficiency in Vegetarian Children
Author(s) -
HELLEBOSTAD M.,
MARKESTAD T.,
HALVORSEN K. SEEGER
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1985.tb10948.x
Subject(s) - rickets , medicine , vitamin d deficiency , tetany , vitamin d and neurology , vitamin b12 , pediatrics , vitamin deficiency , vitamin , endocrinology
. During the years 1978‐83 four vegetarian children have been admitted to the pediatric departments of Ullevaal and Aker Hospitals in Oslo and Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, with the diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency rickets. One had vitamin B 12 deficiency as well. All had been fed a vegetarian diet with some cows’milk, but without vitamin supplementation. All had marked hypocalcemia, and three had tetany or convulsions. All responded well to conventional doses of vitamin D therapy. Two of the mothers had vitamin D deficiency, and one of them also had vitamin B 12 deficiency. This report describes the case histories of these children, and also discusses predisposing factors of vegetarian diets for the development of nutritional rickets