Rickets, not shaking the baby, is the cause of death!

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The disturbing reason why a growing number of parents are being

falsely accused of shaking their babies to deathBy

Sue Reid

Last updated at 10:41 PM on 18th December 2011 Mailonline

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Standing together in the dock of the world’s most famous

criminal court stood two confused and sobbing parents, accused of the

worst offence imaginable: beating and shaking their own baby to death.

According to prosecutors, four-month-old Jayden Wray was gripped and

twisted so brutally that bones throughout his body shattered, while

vicious blows to his head damaged his brain.

The injured baby was rushed to hospital where doctors said he could not

survive. Three days later, paediatricians at Great Ormond Street

Children’s Hospital in London switched off his life-support machine.

Riddled by ricketts: Jayden Wray's parents were cleared of causing his

death after doctors had failed to diagnose the serious childhood bone

disease

So certain were doctors and police that Jayden had been hurt by his

parents that the couple were barred from their son’s bedside before he

died.

They were not allowed to attend his hospital christening and lost the

chance to say their last goodbyes.

This horrific story unfolded over six weeks in a panelled courtroom of

London’s Old . Yet today, Jayden’s father and mother — Rohan,

222, and 19-year-old Chana — are free. The case against thhem was thrown

out ten days ago after 60 medical and forensic experts at their murder

trial disagreed over what really killed their son.

Finally, the judge told the jury to find the couple not guilty because

Jayden’s post-mortem revealed he had rickets, a serious childhood bone

disease which had once been eradicated in this country nearly a century

ago.

Rickets is linked to a lack of vitamin D, which the body synthesises from

sunlight or absorbs from eating foods such as oily fish and

eggs.

The disease causes the skulls of children to weaken and their bones to

easily break — symptoms which closelly mimic those of a deliberately

shaken baby.

Rohan and Chana were found not guilty of murdering their baby Jayden

Wray, and it was discovered he had ricketts

Hospital doctors in Jayden’s case, it transpired, had missed a

vital clue when the baby got sick and then died: his mother, Chana, had

so little vitamin D in her body that Jayden did not receive the vitamin

while inside her womb or when she breastfed him.

After the case, the Wrays’ lawyer Wiltshire said: ‘These

parents have been through hell. They can now grieve for the son they

loved and cherished.’

Yet theirs is a case which has profound implications for all families.

For it serves to highlight a growing medical problem — one whhich is not

only leading to false allegations of abuse against innocent parents, but

which is endangering the health of children right across Britain.

As Wiltshire said: ‘The real criminality here is that if the

money spent on bringing this case had been used to tell all breastfeeding

mothers to take vitamin D supplements, Jayden’s death wouldn’t have

occurred.

‘Rickets, which is now back to epidemic proportions, would have been

wiped out.’

Chana gave birth to Jayden when she was 16

Indeed, a growing number of experts believe that Britain is in the grip

of a childhood rickets crisis on a scale not seen since n times,

when children working long hours in the factories and the mines were

particularly vulnerable to the ailment.

The condition was largely eliminated after World War II, when the

government provided free orange juice enriched with vitamin  D and

cod liver oil for every child in the country.

The difference today is that it is not only a disease of the poor. Those

living in middle-class homes are just as likely to suffer from the

condition — notoriouss for causing bowed legs and knock-knees — as those

fromm the poorest inner-city estates.

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital recently found 40 per cent of

children from all backgrounds being treated in the orthopaedic department

had a shortage of vitamin D in their bodies — and were, therefore, prone

to rickets.

The crisis, said orthopaedic consultant e, was

‘reminiscent of 17th-century England.’

The statistics speak for themselves: cases of childhood rickets have

increased five-fold in 15 years.

Last year, more than 760 babies and youngsters were admitted to

hospital showing signs of the condition. At the same time, recent

research among primary care trusts found that the number of children

under ten admitted to hospital with rickets leapt by 140 per cent between

2001 and 2009.

Doctors say the alarming rise is often due to today’s children spending

large periods of time indoors playing computer games and watching

television.

At the same time, many parents worry about exposing their children to

sunlight — due to the repeated warnings about skin cancer — and cover

theem in high-protection creams, which impede the body’s ability to

produce vitamin D and, in turn, to grow strong bones.

See the light: A lack of sunlight can lead to the development of ricketts

in children

If children are deprived of the vitamin, they are at great risk of

developing rickets and their immune system is weakened. A diet of junk

food, instead of vitamin D‑rich meat, liver, eggs and oily fish, is

also blamed for the crisis.

As Gillian Killiner, of the British Dietetic Association, said recently:

‘We have taken it for granted that skin cancer is the big problem

and overlooked the vitamin D side of things.

‘Children are covered up with sunblock, T-shirts and hats, and that can

be important — but it can go too far. We don’t have a lot of sun in

this country, and in winter you are likely to be lacking vitamin D. If

you haven’t built up enough in the summer, that’s going to be a

certainty.’

But until now, few have pointed out one of the most worrying aspects of

the crisis: babies with a vitamin D deficiency display remarkably similar

symptoms to those who have been deliberately shaken by their parents or

carers. This may have led to other controversial criminal trials of

parents accused of harming their children when — like the Wrays — they

were comcompletely innocent.

Stuck indoors: Children should be encouraged to put the games consoles

away and get outside (posed by model)

Earlier this year, Nafisa and Mohammed Karolia, of Blackburn, Lancashire,

were imprisoned for child cruelty despite their defence team arguing that

vitamin D depletion led to their baby daughter’s injuries and

subsequent death from broncho-pneumonia, aged seven months, in 2009.

The Karolias were accused of inflicting many terrible injuries on the

child, including breaking her leg, her arm, and her rib. The police and

prosecution lawyers said they had been caused by twisting, shaking and

rotating the child’s limbs.

However, a very senior paediatric consultant who has examined evidence

given at the trial has told the Mail: ‘It is very likely that there was

an issue here with low levels of vitamin D in the mother and her

daughter. But it appears that when it was mentioned in court, the

prosecution nearly had a fit because they insisted this child had been

shaken and abused.’

Now one coroner has become so alarmed by the rise of rickets that he has

demanded the Government take action.

North London Coroner sent a written notice to the

Department of Health, under Rule 43 of the Coroner’s Rules, saying

mothers must be warned of the dangers of not taking the vitamin D

supplements.

The notice requires the Health Secretary Lansley to respond within

56 days, detailing what action his department plans to take.

Mr acted after presiding over the inquest into the death of

three-month-old Milind Agarwal. The baby was taken to the doctor this

summer with a suspected viral infection and was sent home with saline

nasal drops. A later call to another doctor by his parents resulted in

them being told to give him paracetamol.

When Milind became critically ill at 10pm one evening in July this year,

his parents called an ambulance and he was taken to Northwick Park

Hospital in North London. A few hours later, he died of septic

inflammation of the heart and associated problems.

An eminent paediatric pathologist and a leading authority on signs of

child abuse, Dr Irene Scheimberg, who conducted a post-mortem examination

on baby Milind, told the inquest that vitamin D deficiency may have

accelerated the baby’s illness because his immune system was

weakened.

Sad: Jayden Wray died at Great Ormond Street - Sue Reid is urging for

ricketts in children to be more closely monitored

She said afterwards: ‘In the 21st century, in a civilised country, this

is outrageous. It is only the tip of the iceberg.’

The highly respected Dr Scheimberg, based at the Royal London Hospital,

added: ‘I hope that the doctors treating sick children now open their

eyes to this vitamin deficiency and the problems it causes. It is a

really serious issue and a matter of justice for parents who are accused

of abusing their children.’

The parents of Milind, who live in Wembley, London, agreed to talk to the

Mail about what happened. They do not want their real first names used in

this article to protect their family’s privacy. Both parents, whom we

have called Gayen and Shrina, were born in India.

Research has shown that those with darker complexions process vitamin D

from sunlight much more slowly than people with paler skin

and are, therefore, prone to deficiency — and more likely to passs it on

to their babies.

When I met the bereaved couple this week at their small flat, they were

still raw with grief about their baby’s death. He was born in

March, a wonderful first son.

A slight muscle weakness in his heart, discovered soon after his birth,

was corrected with a simple procedure, and in June, Milind was given a

clean bill of health.

‘We are talking about him now because it is important for other

families,’ says Gayen, a computer engineer, aged 34.

‘We had no idea that the legacy of Milind would be to help spread the

word that vitamin D is essential for all mothers and their

babies.’

Gayen and Shrina sit on the sofa in their neat sitting room. On one shelf

are the cuddly toys that lay in the cot beside Milind during his short

life.

Jayden had obvious signs of ricketts. It would have left the baby with

weak bones, including a weak skull

They show me his picture, a bright-eyed and smiling child looking

straight at the camera. Then they remember his last hours with tears in

their eyes.

Says Gayen: ‘He had had a cold, but was sleeping well on the night he

died. It was very sudden when he became so ill.

‘Now we know from the coroner that he had an infection, and that the

lack of vitamin D in his body meant he could not fight it

properly.’

By tragic coincidence, Shrina, 29, had been told she had a vitamin D

deficiency two years before Milind was born. She had a pain in her right

knee and her local GP put her on vitamin  D tablets. However, as she

explains: ‘I had stopped taking them well before I became pregnant. No

one, including the GP, the midwife or doctors at Northwick Park Hospital,

ever told me to take the pills while I was pregnant or my new son would

be in danger.’

Since Milind’s death, she has revisited her GP and had blood

tests. They show that she has very low levels of the crucial

vitamin.

‘I am now taking pills all the time and trying to get out in the

sunshine,’ she explains.

By coincidence, the child pathologist Dr Scheimberg, who unravelled the

truth about Milind’s death, also helped clear the parents of Jayden

Wray.

The prosecution insisted that Jayden’s injuries to his skull, knee,

elbow, shoulder, hip, ankle and wrist could only have been caused by him

being intentionally shaken and having his head hit against something

hard.

However, a post-mortem examination by Dr Scheimberg discovered Jayden’s

‘obvious sign of rickets. It would have left the baby with weak bones,

including a weak skull, and led to a series of fractures’.

She is appalled at the way that these innocent parents have been

treated.

‘Some people should be hanging their heads,’ she said.

‘These young parents were stopped from even saying goodbye to their

child before he died, and then accused of murdering him.’

One can only hope that their cases will lead to a growing realisation

among all parents — and some in the medical profession — about the re

return of a condition that can be prevented by a simple pill or exposure

to sunshine.

Read more:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2075884/Parents-guard-accusations-babies-shaken-death-continue-grow.html#ixzz1gy2kaSEc

Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

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