Vitamin D deficiency

external

• Causes

  • Inadequate diet
  • Malabsorption state
  • lack of exposure to sunlight
  • Fat soluble vitamin deficiency
  • Phenytoin
  • Anorexia nervosa

• Effects

  • Hypocalcaemia
  • Hypophosphataemia
  • High alkaline phosphatase
  • Rickets

• Parents

  • Vitamin deficiency