children s health issues
Hypophosphatemic Rickets
Symptoms of Hypophosphatemic Rickets
Hypophosphatemic rickets usually begins to cause abnormalities in the first year of life. Abnormalities may be so mild that they cause no noticeable symptoms or so severe that they cause Bowlegs and other bone deformities, bone pain, joint pain, and poor bone growth with short stature. Bony outgrowths where muscles attach to bones may limit movement at those joints. The space between a baby’s skull bones may close too soon (called Craniosynostosis ). If the skull bones close too soon, the child's growing brain has no room to expand and pressure increases within the brain. The increased pressure on the brain can cause developmental abnormalities. 