The manifestation of vitamin deficiency

Vitamin deficiency can be caused by many factors such as malnutrition, inadequate or unreasonable diets, especially malnourished children often lack many vitamins.

Fruits not much Vitamin (Photo: .linux-magazin) However, there are cases of adequate eating but due to diseases in the gastrointestinal tract or the use of drugs that suffer from vitamin deficiency.

Depending on the lack of vitamin in the body, which manifests the disease:

- Vitamin A deficiency causes dry eyes, night blinds even leading to blindness (encountered in children with severe malnutrition). Currently, to prevent complications of vitamin A deficiency, people give mothers after 1 month of birth and children aged 0-36 months take high doses of vitamin A.

- Lack of vitamin B1 causes beriberi also known as beriberi, causing numbness, dermatitis, neuritis . even causing heart failure.

- Lack of vitamin C causes scurvy, but the basic manifestations are gingivitis, red swollen gums, root bleeding, subcutaneous bleeding . Vitamin C deficiency is often due to lack of fresh fruits and vegetables.

- Lack of vitamin D causes rickets.

- Vitamin K deficiency is a cause of prolonged bleeding .

Preventing lack of vitamins by implementing a balanced diet - a proper diet will prevent most diseases due to vitamin deficiency. Vitamin A is found in pig liver, cow, mackerel, egg yolk. Pre-vitamin A (carotene) and vitamin C are found in yellow fruits such as oranges, mangoes, papayas, carrots, tomatoes and dark colored vegetables such as spinach, spinach, green mustard .

Vitamin B1 is found in rice bran, heart, oval, dried shrimp, crab, beans, yeast, straw mushrooms and dark green vegetables. However, if you suffer from diseases caused by a lack of vitamins, you can supplement vitamins in the form of pills but should not be abused because excess drinking is also dangerous, such as excess vitamin A can lead to poisoning. If you want to add vitamins in the form of medicines, you should consult your physician.