The condition affects children and infants, causes bone deformities and sometimes seizures, and is most often caused by a ...

India is facing a silent epidemic of Vitamin D Deficiency - 1 in every 5 Indians being Vitamin D deficient. The deficiency is ...

Rickets, a disease often thought of as being ... to take it from our diet and we can make it ourselves," he said. In adults a lack of vitamin D caused a lack mineral in their bones, but in ...

Babies up to the age of 1 year need 8.5 to 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day. The NHS adds: "From about late March/early April to the end of September, the majority of people should be able to make all ...

The NHS warns: "A lack of vitamin D can lead to bone deformities such as rickets in children, and bone pain caused by a condition called osteomalacia in adults." Children from the age of one and ...