Abstract
Rickets still remains an urgent problem in pediatrics and occupies a significant place in the structure of morbidity in young children. This problem requires special attention to the problem of rickets, which has a negative impact on the body's reactivity, the course and outcome of somatic diseases, especially in children of the first years of life Rickets is a disease of children characterized by a lack of vitamin D in the body, accompanied by a violation of phosphocalcium metabolism, bone formation processes, changes in the nervoussystem and internal organs. Rickets does not belong to the number of socially dangerous diseases, but most diseases in children are much more severe than in healthy people, with frequent relapses and complications from the respiratory, nervous, cardiovascular and digestive systems, which can be a direct cause of death.