What is Apartment Syndrome?

The suffering from deficiency of vitamin D due to lack of exposure to sunlight is called Apartment Syndrome.

Doctors are worried that an increasing number of children in Chennai are suffering from deficiency of vitamin D.

While vitamin D is found only in traces in breast milk, the natural way the body produces it is through exposure to sunlight.

The best thing by not letting the child play in the scorching sun.

Apartment Syndrome..!

Doctors say did the right thing by exclusively feeding breast milk, but keeping the baby always indoors was not the ideal thing to do.

Dr. Saradha Suresh, Director, Institute of Child Health, said, The hospital sees just one such case a year. But, children's hospitals and paediatric wards across the city are seeing a lot of children with low levels of vitamin D. It is  surprising that in a city where we have plenty of sunlight throughout the year, children are suffering from this deficiency. We call it the apartment syndrome"

Dr . Saradha  Suresh 

Apartment culture..!

A new bone eater or bone crusher disease has broken out in multistory building of urban areas. Thanks to apartment culture. Completely closed air-conditioned rooms, no entry to sunlight! Reasons are enough to get osteoporosis at young age.

A reason study in Chennai city showed Children who live in apartments had shown osteoporosis symptoms. The study revealed shocking results, when 10 months old baby was tested after seeing his bowed leg by mother, found that vitamin D content in his blood was nil.

vitamin D is found in traces from few sources & only source is sunlight.

Dr.Sharada suresh added '' Keeping the infant always indoors has resulted this syndrome, i.e softening of bone, leading to easy frature or deformity. Though we have lot of sunlight available throughout the year, doctors are coming across many children with vitamin D deficiency in paediatric outpatient departments".

so,  do not restrict the children to be abandoned among 4 walls.  Exposing them to plenty of sunlight is the solution to avert this problem.

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