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Vitamin D Deficiency Increasing

 

Vitamin D Deficiency in children presenting to the emergency department:  A growing concern.  Vitamin D deficiency in Birmingham’s Children: Presentation to the emergency department. Kehler L, Verma S, Krone, R, Roper E;  Emergency Medicine Journal 2012; 0:1-3; DOI 10.1136/EMERMED-2012-201473
 
More patients are vitamin D deficient due to a variety of factors which includes a multicultural society and reduced exposure to sunlight because of concerns for skin cancer and due to a more sedentary lifestyle with children spending more time on computers and playing computer games.
 
The authors completed the retrospective survey of children who were noted to be Vitamin D deficient, looking at emergency department visits by these patients.  
 
The most common presenting feature was seizures, and limb pain.  These were anticipated findings.
 
Unanticipated was the fact that non-specific abdominal pain was noted in 19% of the patients.  Whether or not the abdominal pain was related to hypocalcemia, or elevated phosphates could not be identified. 

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