Do you know of infantile tetany

Vitamin d deficiency in infants of tetany is also called tetany. The name for the majority of parents would be very strange, but when it comes to ventilation caused by calcium deficiency, it is easy to accept.

As its name implies, vitamin d deficiency of tetany is lack of vitamin d, calcium in the blood caused by low, the increased excitability of nerves and muscles in children, hence ventilation (medically known as convulsions) and frequent TIC symptoms of tetany is hands and feet.

Infant rickets in children and cause of tetany is actually the same, but have their own unique clinical manifestations. Among with mild rickets, in General, there are mainly of the following symptoms:

1, convulsion: generally differ from the common ventilation of high fever in children, children with no fever, sudden ventilation without suffering from other diseases. Ventilation most of the time relatively short, lasting several seconds to about half an hour, but the number of attacks frequently, ranging from 1-20 times a day. Ventilation eyes when hanging, facial muscles spasm, TIC of the hands and feet have rhythm, loss of consciousness, may become incontinent. After the ventilation, children face and no different from usual. Initial symptoms sometimes performance for only minor facial tic.

2, tetany: for a special symptoms of the disease, occur in infants and children more than 6 months. At the onset of bending of the wrist, fingers straightened, the thumb close to Palm; instep arcuate bending, toe is ankylosing State.

3, laryngeal spasm due to laryngeal muscle spasm, the airway narrows, inspiratory wheezing may issue a special when children in roaring sound, serious even because of breathing difficulties result in sudden death. In addition, children have symptoms of elevated neural excitability, sleep does not collapse, and easily awakened, tired, sweating, etc. Sometimes accompanied by fever, but not of tetany-related, generally by concurrent disease, such as respiratory tract infections caused by.

Doctors at the time of diagnosis in addition to the child\'s medical history and ventilation performance, but also made some necessary tests to check. Significantly reduce the calcium in the blood; at the same time with elevated alkaline phosphatase in diagnosis tetany is meaningful.