What are the symptoms of rickets in children

The initial stage of rickets usually does not have a typical manifestation, often such children are prone to excessive sweating, irritability, often sleep at night, often get up at night and cry. Because the child also has no hunger, no heat pain cause, there is inexplicable night crying, sleep often wake up. With the aggravation of the disease may appear, such as cranial softening, square skull deformity, the child’s head square, in addition to the back of the head where the hair are gone called occipital baldness. In severe cases, the child may develop a chicken chest, which is concave in the center of the chest, with the ribs on both sides bulging out and sinking in like a chicken’s breast. Legs can appear leg deformities, such as children’s serious legs, serious X-shaped legs and other bone changes, so these are the clinical manifestations of rickets. Some children may not have typical early manifestations, there will be no obvious skeletal changes, sometimes also manifested in some mental symptoms, such as often waking up at night, often snotty cry inside the night easy to cry, and systemic symptoms such as excessive sweating unrelated to the heat, but also more of such a number of cases, which is the clinical manifestations of rickets.