Nutritional vitamin D deficiency: a case report

Cases Journal - Tập 2 - Trang 1-4 - 2009
Rachel L Stevens1, Corey Lyon1
1Research Family Medicine Residency, Research Medical Center, Kansas City, USA

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We present a 6-month-old African American male child with a chief complaint of failure to appropriately gain weight despite adequate caloric intake via breastfeeding. While he has met developmental milestones he appears small for age and is diagnosed with failure to thrive after crossing two major growth curve percentiles. After appropriate diagnostic workup, a diagnosis of nutritional vitamin D deficiency (rickets) was reached and supplementation was initiated with ensuing adequate catch-up growth.

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