Essentials for diagnosis 
(1) The disease is common in infants and prevails in winter and spring.

(2) At the early stage of attack, symptoms such as dysphoria, night cry, expressive apathy, loss of appetite, profuse sweat, occipital baldness, late closure of fontanel and delayed dentition occur.

(3) At the active stage, besides the manifestions of the early stage, symptoms like square skull, craniomalacia, beading of ribs, eversion of ribs, costochondral groove and circular prominence, pigeon breast, funnel breast, bow legs or knock-knee, scoliokyphosis or scoliosis can be seen.

(4) Lab examination   Blood calcium is normal or slightly lower while serium inorganic phosphorus decreases, with the product of calcium and phosphorus being less than 30. Serum alkaline phosphatase increases. X-ray film of the wrist indicates brush-shaped change or change like the cup mouth in the epiphysis, as well as osteoporosis  and thin cortex of bone.

In TCM, a disease or a symptom might be caused by one pathogenic factor, even two or three pathogenic factors. When diagnosing a disease or a symptom, TCM doctors must follow the principle of "Syndrome Dfferentiation", and then "Suit the Remedy to the Case". In order to gain a more definite and valuable diagnosis, it's important and necessary for the doctor to learn the detailed health information of the patient, including his/her disease duration, age, sex, height, weight, family history, urine, stool, diet, sleep, sweat, energy, mood (emotion), as well as the tongue conditions and the palm conditions, etc. If you would want our expert to create a TCM diagnosis, you're welcome to contact us.