Calcium deficiency increases with age: Expert

Mohali: “Due to the lack of calcium in the bones, they become weak and fracture occurs even at the slightest blow. If someone, especially elders, falls a little or slips in the bathroom, they can get a dangerous fracture.”

Bhanu Pratap Singh Saluja, Director, Orthopedic and Joint Replacement at Ivy Hospital, explains that, in fact, when there is a lack of calcium in the bones, they start becoming weak and hollow, in such a situation they break as soon as there is a slight pressure. . To avoid this problem, calcium should be tested in the bones, it shows how weak the bones have become and what will be the method of treatment, he advised. 

When it is found in the examination of calcium in the bones that the bone is weak, then treatment is done by giving calcium medicine. Sometimes this problem also occurs due to lack of any hormone. Artificial parathyroid hormone injections are done in state-of-the-art technology, which supplies calcium and essential hormones. A person suffering from the problem of frequent fractures, apart from walking with support, should keep hip hanging for the protection of the hip.

Dr. Bhanu Pratap Singh Saluja further said that, in order to get rid of the problem of repeated fractures in the hip, it is complicated to replace the hip joint. Nowadays, in new technology, instead of replacing the entire joint, the patient is cured only by replacing half the joint in the hip. Earlier, it used to take a long time and a month and a half to join the bone in the treatment of hip fracture.

Now the affected part of the hip, i.e. half the joint, gets treated by changing it. In this, the patient starts walking immediately after the operation and in a few days starts doing all the work without support. The recovery is also quick, asserted Dr Bhanu.