The manifestations and symptoms of calcium deficiency in children mainly include: neurological symptoms, abnormal muscle tone, skeletal deformities, and other symptoms.
1. Neurological symptoms: when the child is seriously deficient in calcium, he/she may show easily irritated and restlessness, accompanied by neurological symptoms such as shaking the head during sleep, restless sleep, and crying at night.
2. Abnormal muscle tone: if the child has a long-term calcium deficiency, it is more serious, which increases the neuromuscular excitability and leads to restlessness, tremor, jumping, twitching of hands and feet, convulsions, and in severe cases, laryngeal spasms and asphyxia.
3. Skeletal deformity: when the child is seriously deficient in calcium, rickets may be induced, which may lead to the formation of funnel chest, chicken chest, rib margin ectropion and other manifestations.
4. Other symptoms: children’s calcium deficiency can show excessive sweating, especially in the head shortly after going to sleep, can also be accompanied by occipital baldness, teeth grinding, behind the development of teeth and other manifestations.
For the problem of calcium deficiency, parents must pay attention to, can be directed by the doctor reasonable application of calcium to the child, such as calcium carbonate, calcium gluconate, etc., at the same time with a good dietary regimen.