I created a new category for this, basically a WTF category.
Apparently rickets is back. Rickets sounds vaguely familiar, like some sort of British tea spoon or a dance your great-grandma would do, but no. It’s not a fashion thing either, as in “rickets, it’s this spring’s hottest muumuu.” Nope. It’s a frigging disease. Rickets! R-i-c-k-e-t-s.
Rickets is apparently the “soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.” It’s casued by too little exercise, too little milk, and not enough sunshine. Wow. Not exactly things that are hard to get, or find. Vitamin D was added to milk (who knows when) to help prevent rickets. Some of today’s doctors don’t even know it when they see it, because they never were taught about it because people figure in 2007 in the U.S. of A. there wouldn’t be rickets. Lordy.
The bad news?
This potentially is a time bomb, says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington.
Excellent! Really! As if rickets didn’t sound scary enough, imagine a rickets time bomb! But there is good news.
… the once-energetic child had quit running because his bones ached like an old man’s. Fortunately, rickets caught early is easily cured with infusions of vitamin D and calcium.
Read the source article: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/health/stories/2007/11/27/ap_bones_1127.ART_ART_11-27-07_A12_CE8JISP.html?sid=101
