Respiratory distress: a rare presentation of rickets.
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.
Siddiqui
Tahir Saeed
TS
Department of Paediatrics, Ayub Medical College Abbottabad. tahirsaeeds@hotmail.com
D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*; D012279:Rickets / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy