Barnasjukan
From SFHS
Barnasjukan, Engelska sjukan "Engelska sjukan" (The English disease) = Rickets. Barnasjukan = children's disease Classic rickets, a deficiency disease of children characterized by improper development or hardening of bones, is due to lack of sufficient vitamin D in the diet, or to insufficient ultraviolet radiation from direct sunlight, a lack that prevents conversion of the element 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D. The type of skeletal deformities depends largely on the child's age when the vitamin-D deficiency occurs. A child who has not yet learned to walk develops vertebral curvatures; a walking child develops leg curvatures. The British physician Francis Glisson did a very detailed description of the disease. That is way the disease also is called the English disease in some countries.
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