Growing Pains in Children and Vitamin D Deficiency, The Impact of Vit D Treatment for Resolution of Symptoms

Abstract

Objectives:

The point of the review was to assess vitamin D levels in kids having growing pains and to evaluate the reaction to vitamin D supplement on the diminishing of pain manifestations.

Subjects and Methods:

Thirty six child had features of growing pains were considered. Serum levels of vitamin D was measured at the time of initial presentation. Patients with low level of vitamin D are incorporated into a prospective cohort study. The pain intensity was measured utilizing a pain “visual analogue  scale” (VAS). After a solitary oral or intramuscular dosage of vitamin D given to kids with low vit D Levels, the pain intensity was re measured by methods for the (VAS) at 1 month. The vit D levels and (VAS) scores prior and then afterward vitamin D treatment were looked at by methods for a matched Student's t test.

Results:   36 child with features of growing pains are evaluated.

One child had normal Vit D level and not given Vit D treatment, the majority {97.2%} 35 had low vit D level and included in the study. During period of pretreatment of Vitamin D, most of the children (62%) were suffered from moderate pain according to {VAS} pain score, while in post treatment period 88.6% of them became with no pain symptoms. the mean level of Vitamin D in pre-treatment phase was 16.3 ng/ml while in post treatment phase is 35 ng/ml with highly significant P value 0.0001.

Conclusion: large number of children with growing pain had low vitamin D level. Treatment with vitamin D resulted in  a critical diminishment in pain severity among these kids with growing pains who had  low vitamin D.