Effectiveness of Vitamin C Supplementation in Treatment of Rickets

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2022-08-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Effectiveness of therapeutic dose of vitamin C in infants and children with nutritional rickets as an adjuvant therapy with vitamin D and calcium The study is two armed Randomized Control Trial, to validate the role of Vit C supplementation on bone turnover infants and children with nutritional rickets.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Clinical diagnosis:

• Nutritional rickets in infants or children between 6 months and 3 years.

• Normal liver and kidney functions.

• The parents must be compliant to the clinic visits and the treatment doses.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling to participate in the study.

• Non nutritional causes of rickets as hypoparathyroidism, renal causes, chronic liver disease, and malabsorption.

• Children on vitamin C supplements above RDA.