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Background: In most developing countries, nutritional rickets is a major health problem. The aim of this study was to explore the magnitude of nutritional rickets among Saudi infants, and the various clinical presentations, as well as to address the possible operating risk factors behind the disease
Methods: Cross sectional study has been conducted among Infants, aged 4 - 24 months, who were seen and evaluated, at King Abdulaziz Hospital and Oncology center, pediatrics endocrine clinic in Jeddah - Saudi Arabia, during the period from January 2015 to December 2016, and confirmed to have rickets were included
Conclusion: Infants under 2 years of age are liable to have vitamin D deficiency and rickets, if they are exclusively breast fed and having inadequate exposure to sunlight. Delayed introduction of complementary foods and malnutrition are also important contributing factors in nutritional rickets. Vitamin D deficiency can present with variety of symptoms other than musculoskeletal symptoms like recurrent acute respiratory, diarrhea and seizures