When a youngster has rickets, their bones are abnormally soft, which makes them more prone to warping, bending, and breaking. Although a deficiency in vitamin D is usually the reason, an underlying genetic condition can also be the cause in rare instances. When a youngster has rickets, their bones are abnormally soft, which makes them more prone to warping, bending, and breaking. Osteomalacia, an adult-onset comparable disorder, is not the same as rickets. The distinction between the two is that rickets mainly affects youngsters because of their developing bones, which results in the typical symptom of bent or bowed bones. Adults do not have this symptom because their bones have done growing, with the possible exception of untreated childhood rickets. Infants and newborns are most vulnerable, particularly those who are breastfed (even more so if the mother is deficient in vitamin D) or who were born before their due date.
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