Hypovitaminosis

After the summer fruit and vegetable boom, autumn fatigue and frequent diseases pose a dead end. They fed the body with vitamins, fed, and he "complains" ... The whole trouble is that most vitamins do not accumulate in the human body. Therefore, it is worth to relax, do not follow the diet, skip the symptoms of dysbiosis, how hypovitaminosis develops.

Avitaminosis and hypovitaminosis

The lack of vitamins is quite common. It is worth noting that avitaminosis and hypovitaminosis are different concepts. The first has gained popularity, but it is characterized by a complete lack of a vitamin or a group of vitamins in the body. The second concept describes a less serious condition and means a lack of vitamins. In the risk group, pregnant women and children, that is, those with developing systems of the body require additional intake of vital amino acids. Although due to unfavorable environmental conditions and poor-quality food, hypovitaminosis, especially in the autumn-winter period, occurs in almost every person. Depending on the specific group of missing substances, this condition can manifest itself with various symptoms. But they are united by all:

Hypovitaminosis of Vitamin A

One of the vitamins that does not require constant replenishment is vitamin A. Having the property of accumulating in the body, this vitamin rarely causes hypovitaminosis. But for the assimilation of beta-carotene, which after some chemical reactions turns into vitamin A, you need a sufficient intake of plant and animal fats into the body. With insufficient intake of this vitamin, you can talk about skin hypovitaminosis. Symptoms of Vitamin A hypovitaminosis are as follows:

To make up for the lack of vitamin A, it is worth including in the diet products containing beta-carotene: carrots, pumpkin, parsley, peaches, apples, apricots, spinach, green onions, dairy products, liver, eggs.

Hypovitaminosis of B vitamins

Group of vitamins B - a wide range of vitamins, which, nevertheless, in a natural state "live" together. These are water-soluble amino acids, they have no accumulative properties, except for vitamin B12. Vitamins of this group are involved in the supply of cells with oxygen, as well as in the processes of neuro-cerebral activity. Symptoms of hypovitaminosis of B vitamins are very serious:

With vitamin B2 hypovitaminosis, cutting pain in the eyes may occur, hypovitaminosis B12 leads to memory failure, and hypovitaminosis B6 leads to seborrhea of ​​the face and neck, diseases of the oral cavity.

To eliminate the lack of B vitamins, you can include in your diet milk, rice, walnuts, buckwheat and oatmeal, liver, fish, meat, cottage cheese, cheese.

Hypovitaminosis of vitamin D

To assimilate calcium, vitamin D. is required. Its shortage provokes the following processes:

If you regularly eat foods high in calcium and often visit the sun, such problems are excluded. Although in some cases, vitamin D vitamin hypovitaminosis is provoked by a violation of phosphoric-calcium metabolism, diseases and pathologies of the body.

Hypovitaminosis of Vitamin E

Vitamin E or tocopherol is a fat-soluble vitamin that affects the resistance of cell membranes to oxidation. Because of the lack of this substance in the body, the following occurs:

In order to avoid a shortage of vitamin E, it is worthwhile to focus on the food rich in tocopherol: peanuts, almonds, oatmeal, corn and sunflower oil, legumes, rose hips, liver, milk, eggs (yolk).

Synthetic drugs are also a great way to make up for the lack of essential substances in the body. For the prevention of hypovitaminosis in the absence season of many sources of vitamins will not prevent you from taking a course of vitamin complex, your therapist will help to choose them.