Hypocalcemic Convulsion in a Six-Year-Old Child with Vitamin D Deficiency

Autor:	Mehmet Tekin, Çapan Konca, Abdulgani Gülyüz
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Hypocalcemic convulsion school childhood vitamin D deficiency Medicine Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid RC86-88.9
Zdroj:	Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 4, Pp 206-208 (2014)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2149-5807 2149-6048
DOI:	10.5152/jaem.2014.251
Popis:	Nutritional rickets occurs more commonly in breastfed infants with rapid growth and limited exposure to sunlight. Hypocalcemic convulsions secondary to vitamin D deficiency occur largely in patients with rapid growth rates, such as children younger than 1 year and adolescents. Vitamin D deficiency seems to be an unrecognized and prevalent problem in school childhood. Whereas infants generally exhibit bony deformities, most school-aged children are asymptomatic. In this case, we present hypocalcemic convulsion in a 6-year-old boy with nutritional vitamin D deficiency in order to emphasize that hypocalcemia secondary to vitamin D deficiency can lead to convulsion in other children, as well as infants and adolescents.
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