In order for immunity to be strong, it is necessary to get basic vitamins together with food. Lack of vitamins occurs for various reasons. For example, this can happen if you do not have a balanced diet and do not eat fruits, vegetables, meat, fish. Another reason is problems with assimilation of vitamins: this happens with Crohn’s disease.
Vitamin C is the main nutrient that the human body needs. According to Lindsay Tallis, health expert at Mighty Health, the daily allowance of vitamin C can vary depending on gender and age. Yes, for adult men it is 90 mg per day, and for women – 75 mg per day.
Why is vitamin C deficiency so dangerous? Nima Majlesi, MD and director of the Division of Medical Toxicology at Staten Island University Hospital, emphasizes that this vitamin helps prevent scurvy. With this disease, bleeding and bruising easily occur, wounds heal poorly, etc.
The greatest risk of encountering scurvy is in the elderly, in those who suffer from alcoholism, and in those who do not eat well and do not get vitamin C.
As for the signs of lack of vitamin C, they are all like this. Anemia (ie lack of iron); swollen joints that also hurt; decrease in immunity. Also, with a deficiency of vitamin C, scurvy develops. Among its signs are a feeling of malaise, fatigue; anemia; slow healing of wounds on the skin; bleeding or swelling of the gums, tooth loss; spots on the skin due to bleeding and bruising.
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