What causes rib valgus

Rib valgus is actually a disease. Patients often show symptoms of muscle relaxation or mental abnormalities. Especially in the early stages, they may become irritable, have trouble sleeping, or sweat excessively. Children in particular must pay attention to timely detection and treatment.

1. What is rib valgus

What is rib valgus? Rib valgus is a disease, and its main symptoms are muscle relaxation and mental abnormalities.

1. The manifestation of rib valgus is mainly skeletal changes. Patients with early rib valgus will be irritable, restless, inactive, have restless sleep, night terrors, sweating, baldness on the back of the head, and their serum calcium is normal or slightly low. These are relatively common symptoms. In addition, if the patient is active, his bones will show the following changes: square head, rib beads, bracelets or anklets, general muscle relaxation, low serum calcium and other symptoms.

2. If a mother finds that her baby has the above symptoms, she should take the baby to the hospital in time to ask whether the baby is really suffering from rib valgus. If the disease has been diagnosed, you should actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment. The amount of calcium and vitamin D supplementation will be determined based on the cause of rib valgus. At the same time, pay attention to helping your child do chest expansion exercises, which can help improve chest deformity caused by rickets.

2. Causes of rib valgus

Patients with rib valgus will not only show skeletal changes, but also suffer from mental abnormalities. It will seriously affect the healthy growth of the baby. To treat rib valgus correctly and effectively, we must first find out the cause of the rib valgus.

Reason 1: Caused by rickets. The vast majority of children's rib valgus is caused by rickets.

Reason 2: Simple rib deformity. After all, this cause of rib valgus is a minority.

Reason three: The waist of the child’s pants is too tight and tied too high, which puts long-term pressure on the development of the ribs and causes the baby’s ribs to be everted. Doctors recommend that children under two years old should wear overalls.