About diet therapy of rickets and accompanying anemia
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Dietary prescriptions have long occupied a prominent place in the treatment of rickets, undergoing changes over time depending on changes in views on the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease. As early as 250 years ago in Glissons, and later in Czerny and Kellera et al. It is noted that overfeeding, both naturally and artificially fed children leads to the development of the disease; on the other hand, malnourished children (due to malnutrition or illness) almost never suffer from rickets.