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The word Crippled is unpalatable

The word Crippled is unpalatable. Rickets is Unacceptable !. W hat is Vitamin D?. W hat is Vitamin D Deficiency?. W hat is Orthopaedics?. Benjamin Jacobs Consultant Paediatrician. Vitamin D. 1928 Nobel prize for chemistry Adolf Windaus. Types of Vitamin D. Vitamin D 2 Vitamin D 3

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The word Crippled is unpalatable

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  1. The word Crippled is unpalatable Rickets is Unacceptable !

  2. What is Vitamin D? What is Vitamin D Deficiency? What is Orthopaedics? Benjamin Jacobs Consultant Paediatrician

  3. Vitamin D 1928 Nobel prize for chemistry Adolf Windaus

  4. Types of Vitamin D Vitamin D2 Vitamin D3 which to prescribe? simple Vitamin D 25 (OH) Vitamin D 1,25 (OH)2 Vitamin D Calciol CalciDiol CalciTriol

  5. How much? Dose 400 units = 10 micrograms Blood level 50 nmol/L = 20 ng/ml

  6. Diet Sun? Food Fortification? Supplements? Drugs? How? X ? ? √ ?

  7. RNOH Children's Medical Bone Clinic • Support orthopaedic surgery • Vitamin D FAQ’s • Investigate D overdose • Genetic forms of rickets

  8. Orthopaedic Vit D questions? • SUFE • Perthes • Blounts • Osgood-Schlatter • Stress Fractures • Growing pains • Plagiocephaly • Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

  9. Pictures courtesy of Dr Jeffery Rosenberg RNOH

  10. Questions? Picture courtesy of Marilyn Raymond RNOH

  11. Questions?

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