Serum and urinary diastase in vitamin D deficiency rickets

ABSTRACT

The present work was done on 20 infants and children with clinical, biochemical and radiological manifestations of active rickets. Ten normal control subjects with no clinical or biochemical evidence of rickets were included. The ages of both samples ranged between 6 and 30 months. The serum diastase in rachitic group ranged between 22 and 260 diastase units/dl with a mean value 97.45 diastase units/dl. In urine it ranged between 30-300 diastase units/dl with a mean value of 117 diastase units/dl. Comparing these values with those of normal controls revealed no significant difference in serum and urine diastase