Dietary Calcium Deficiency Osteomalacia

Histological osteomalacia due to dietary calcium deficiency in children.

Dietary calcium deficiency osteomalacia. You need this vitamin to absorb calcium from your diet you can get it from sunlight or. Thus a deficiency in vitamin d results in calcium deficiency. Rickets and osteomalacia are known to develop in immigrant indians who migrate away from the equator 7 10. Thus nutritional rickets has a spectrum of causes with dietary calcium deficiency being at one end of the spectrum and pure vitamin d deficiency at the other.

We performed a histomorphometric study of trabecular bone formation and resorption in undecalcified sections of iliac crest from three children presenting with clinical radiologic and biochemical evidence of rickets associated. With the help of the analyzed composition the. Normally the stomach breaks down food to release calcium and other minerals that are absorbed in the intestine. Dietary calcium deficiency leading to rickets in infants fed feeds with low calcium content 5 7 and we have described rickets osteomalacia and bone deformities in children from rural areas of south africa due to chronically low dietary calcium intake 8 12.

Osteomalacia is a disease characterized by the softening of the bones caused by impaired bone metabolism primarily due to inadequate levels of available phosphate calcium and vitamin d or because of resorption of calcium. N engl j med. Vitamin d deficiency or poor dietary calcium intake can together lead to a defect in mineralization of bone rickets in children. Vitamin d deficiency is the most common cause of osteomalacia worldwide.

Vitamin d deficiency mayo clinic. People who live in areas where sunlight is limited get little exposure to sunlight or eat a diet low in vitamin d can develop osteomalacia. Marie pj pettifor jm ross fp glorieux fh. Osteomalacia is softening of bones to excess accumulation of organic bone resulting from vitamin d deficiency.

Our finding that adequate amounts of calcium rapidly improved bone mineralization demonstrates that calcium deficiency can cause osteomalacia in children. Osteomalacia is more common in women and often. The impairment of bone metabolism causes inadequate bone mineralization osteomalacia in children is known as rickets and because of this use of the term osteomalacia. Questions are also being asked as to whether increasing calcium intake.