Abstract
Rickets due to malnutrition is rare in Denmark. The Danish Board of Health recommend that: pregnant women are treated with a daily dose of vitamin D daily (10 micrograms); emigrants with coloured skin have their vitamin D level assessed during pregnancy; all children receive a daily dose of vitamin D (10 micrograms) until two years old. Despite of these recommendations two cases of severe nutritional rickets among children of emigrants were discovered upon hospital admission. The symptoms were heterogeneous: delayed walking skills and convulsions. We conclude that nutritional rickets is a tricky diagnosis, but is preventable.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Severe vitamin D deficiency in children born in Denmark of dark-skinned women] |
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| Original language | Danish |
| Journal | Ugeskrift for Laeger |
| Volume | 173 |
| Issue number | 26 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1862-3 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISSN | 0041-5782 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2011 |
