Please help, new adopted sister has rickets
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> Hi, my newly adopted Russian sisters (15 and 12) come home on Friday.
> The 12-year-old was diagnosed with rickets at her medical exam. My
> dad and step mom are in Russia and don't have much access to the
> internet to research this, so I told them I would see what I could
> find out before they got home.
> I understand that rickets is a vitamin D deficiency. Is it permanent,
> or will getting more vitamin D cure her rickets? Will it cause any
> long term problems?
The body naturally makes vitamine D when one spends time in the
sunlight.
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> She's *extremely* skinny ("looks like a Holocaust victim" says my step
> mom) and her chest and stomach sort of cave in. She barely ate when
> living in the orphanage there, but my dad tells me she's been putting
> away massive amounts of
cooking.net">food since they picked the girls up from the
> orphanage last week. Our understanding from what little information
> we were able to get about why she wasn't eating before is that she
> really didn't like the
cooking.net">food there. They had been living there for
> almost four years.
> Any advice or information would be very much appreciated.
> Please post here, this email address is just a spam-catcher and I
> don't check it.
> Thanks!
> Jacqueline
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