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In many cases the child is significantly overweight and in most cases
children under two years old bowing of the legs is simply a normal
variation in leg appearance. Doctors generally refer to this type of
bowing as physiologic genu varum and in children with physiologic
genu varum the bowing begins to slowly improve at approximately
eighteen months of age and consitnues as the child grow.
By the age of three to four, the bowing will be corrected and the legs
will typically have a normal appearance. Blount’s disease is a condition
that can occur in toddlers as well as in adolescents. It results from an
abnormality of the growth plate in the upper part of the shin bone or
tibia. Growth plates are located at the ends of Childs long bones and
they help to determine the length and shape of the adult bones.
In a child under the age of two years, it may be impossible to distinguish
infantile Blount’s disease from physiologic genu varum. By the age of
three years, however the bowing will worsen and an obvious problem
can often be seen in an x ray. Again rickets is a bone disease in children
that causes bow legs and other bone deformities.
Children with rickets do not get enough calcium, phosphorus and
vitamin D all of which are important for healthy growing bones.
Nutritional rickets is unusual in developed countries because many foods
including milk products are fortified with vitamin D.
Rickets can also be caused by a genetic abnormality that does not allow
vitamin D to be absorbed correctly. This form of rickets may be
inherited. Now if you want some more information about the causes of
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