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Knock Knees in Children
Douvante
#1 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:54:00 AM
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Anyone who has had an experience of a child with knock knees,can you please enlighten me on whether it corrected itself and when? A friend of mone has a kid age 2 years and her knees have knocked and she's worried whether they will correct themselves or whether there's anything that can be done to correct them. Anyone please help with information.

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mtaalam
#2 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:00:00 PM
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Surely,wouldn't you rather see a pediatrician?

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#3 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:18:00 PM
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My home science teacher told me it is due to lack of vitamin D.

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ocampo
#4 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:30:00 PM
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Simply put; the child lacks Vitamin D.

This is mainly caused by insuficient exposure to UV rays that comes from the sun. This is mainly helpful to convert inactive Vit D (ergocalciferol) to the actve form(cholecalciferol) that now mobilises uptake of calcium for bone formation. Tell the mother to give the child cod liver oil and expose it to adequate amount of sunlight.

The mother too should be spending time in the sun with the kid and stop 'protecting' the kid by keeping it indoors.

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Magigi
#5 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:55:00 PM
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...ever read the novel The Concubine by Elechi Amadi? Don't worry. Knock-knees are not without their advantages: They are good for the Oduma dance...
Engine
#6 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:22:00 PM
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His name was Wuodu wakiri

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Magigi
#7 Posted : Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:46:00 PM
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...@Engine;

...Good memory you have... and boy,Wuodu Wokiri could swing those knock knees... He was the MJ of them days...
Braza
#8 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:48:00 AM
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..........He got up and seizing one edge of his trailing wrapper danced very gracefully either because or in spite of his knock-kneed legs....one song followed another and the wine gradually disappeared as the shadows began to grow..... Oh. Wodu my boy! Ooh boy! What a generation they lived in.....

........beautifull Ihuoma was there too... gals....gals who were jugded by the content of their face and the swag of their hips and not the design of the their G-string or the salon they visited...........Madume was there too...great men,who were jugded by the strength of their biceps and Triceps and not the horsepower of the their autos..he charged at Madume but the latter stooped,carred him shoulder high and dashed him to the ground with elephantine fury...


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Magigi
#9 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:39:00 AM
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@Braza

...Yes,those days things were just very natural. You remember in Things Fall Apart (Chinua.A) when the whitemen had just arrived in Nigeria and had invaded one of the villages,Abame and Okonkwo was wondering what had beacme o men in that village. This is what he had to say;

'...You may even want to tell me that the women in that village sleep on top of the men when they are making the children....'

What do you think Okonkwo would do if he woke up today and found out that all women sleep on top of the man when they are making and not making children?

... and it looks like Okonkwo only slept on top of his women when he was making the children...


mlefu
#10 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:03:00 AM
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the stairs....our residential houses have stair cases,considering that the small kid bones are not strong enough for this,gravity plays its part and the knock knees develop but as the kid grows stronger and gets used to the stairways at age of between two and three,the KK disappears..no worry to your friend


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Douvante
#11 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:15:00 PM
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Thanks Mlefu for enlightening,is it possible that the kid could have developed the knock knees due to taking stairs? they live in a flat and their house is on the 4th floor.

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Ericks
#12 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:33:00 PM
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@ Mlefu,

Kids will never develop knocked knees due to using stairs or else trying to walk too soon would cause the same as well. KK is a problem occasioned by lack of enough calcium in the bones during early stages of development and also lack of vitamin D as ocampo and sober soberly pointed out......

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ukuta
#13 Posted : Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:25:00 PM
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visit kijabe hospital. they have an entire department? staffed by volunteer professionals that deal with this kind of bone ailments.
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