Özet:

Vitamin D provides calcium (Ca) -phosphorus (P) metabolism and bone mineralization between bone, kidney and intestine together with parathyroid hormone and calcitonin. Nutritional rickets are caused by defective chondrocyte and osteoid mineralization in growth plaques due to vitamin D and / or calcium deficiency. In our country, free 400 IU / day vitamin D support is provided to all infants for the first year since 2005 by the Ministry of Health. Although infants of immigrant families in our country are given vitamin D support, families cannot communicate with healthcare professionals in primary health care centers, so they do not know at what dose and until when to use this supportive treatment, and can use it in under-doses or for a short time. In this article, we wanted to contribute to the literature by presenting the patient who was treated with the diagnosis of nutritional rickets and to draw attention to the problems that may occur due to the lack of communication with immigrant families.

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