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How to understand that you do not have enough vitamins?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[The main symptoms with a lack of vitamins
The loudest symptoms of vitamin deficiency (lack of vitamins in the body) is weakness, fatigue, you always want to sleep and do not want to work at all.
The fact that there are few vitamins in the body can also be told by the largest body - the skin. It begins to turn red, wrinkle, peel, sometimes uneven or pale.
Eyes too can tell a lot about the lack of vitamins. The whites of the eyes are dim, covered with a mesh of red veins. You quickly get tired when you work at a computer, you start to see badly.
The head will also tell you that the vitamin menu is very poor. It can be aching, spinning, hair can fall out, you may be troubled by permanent temporal pain.
Lips are an excellent mirror of the lack of vitamins in the diet. They can appear cracks, boils, so-called pustules, grephes, from which it is difficult to get rid of.
The tongue, teeth and gums are also an indicator of whether you are all right with the vitamin diet. If the vitamins are not enough, the tongue can swell and hurt, the gums - bleed even with a weak depression or even just so, teeth tend to stagger and fall out.
If you find at least one of these symptoms or all at once - go immediately to the doctor for a checkup. He will give you vitamins in the right doses, combinations and ratios. Because if you decide to drink vitamins all at once, hypervitaminosis (hypovitaminosis) can manifest like a lack of vitamins - malfunctioning of the body.
What vitamins are missing most?
Worst of all, according to surveys, the situation with a lack of vitamin C - ascorbic or folic acid. This vitamin lacks in the body more than 70% of children and the same number of adults. The most deficiency of this vitamin deficiency is for pregnant and elderly people, whose organism is most vulnerable to any kind of infections and pathogens of colds.
B vitamins are not enough for more than half the population of our country. If we talk separately about vitamin B6, then its deficit worries almost 90% of expectant mothers.
What to do when there is a shortage of vitamins?
First you need to know that one vitamin can not do it. If by all indications you have a deficiency of vitamins, then most likely not one, but the whole complex.
Pay attention to your menu. If you stop eating animal food, you will have a deficiency of vitamins E, A, D, which you get from it.
If you are a meat-eater and do not really like plant products, then you will most likely have a shortage of vitamin C and some B vitamins.
How to act in this case?
Be sure to balance the diet and do not starve yourself for long periods of hunger on mono-diets - it will not bring a good result. Exchange processes in the body, you break, deprive the nutrients, and lost pounds will still be returned within a few days.
Return to the diet all the necessary products, from which you get vitamins: meat, milk, eggs,
Be sure to visit a doctor who will help you pick up chemist's vitamins, taking into account your age, physical activity and working schedule.
Be healthy and do not self-medicate. Your vitamins are in your hands.