Rickets

Rickets is a childhood disease where your child’s bones are too soft, causing their bones to warp, bend and break more easily.

Rickets is different from osteomalacia, which is a similar condition seen in adults. The difference between the two is that rickets happens only in children because their bones are still growing, which causes the classic symptom of bowed or bent bones. Adults’ bones have already finished growing and they don’t have this symptom (unless they had untreated rickets as a child).