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Vitamin D has fat soluble compounds known as calciferols. Vitamin D is not a true vitamin because it can be absorbed by your skin when cholosteral reacts with ultraviolet light from the sun. Sunscreens and clothes can block UV sunlight rays from reaching the skin and would cause vitamin D deficiency. To help prevent this possibilty, foods or drinks like milk or vitamin water would work very well with Vitamin D2 and D3. However, a very severe deficiency of vitamin D can lead to softening of bones called the osteomalacia in adults and rickets in teens and children.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoVitamin D is produced by humans when exposed to sunlight.
A vitamin D deficiency is caused by not enough time in full sun.
Away from the equatorial regions, light skinned people need about 20 min in the sun to synthesize enough Vit D, while dark skinned people need several hours.
Synthetic vitamin D is added to milk.
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∙ 11y agoWhen someone suffers with a vitamin D deficiency they could have bone pain and muscle weakness as minor symtoms but it can become more serious. The serious symtoms would be dying from cardiovascular disease and cancer. To fix the vitamin D deficiency, your doctor would get you to start eating the right foods and taking supplements so your body would get the proper vitamin D amounts.
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∙ 9y agoNumerous people in the world has a Vitamin D deficiency. You can take Vitamin D pills to help.
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∙ 13y agoextremely tired, loss of weight, insomia,
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∙ 12y agoA simple blood test from your doctor.
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What happens if you are lack of vitamins?
Vitamin deficiency
What happens if you don't realize you have vitamin d deficiency?
You could get a disease called rickets if you have a Vitamin D deficiency.
What happens if vitamin k deficiency occurs?
kwashiorkore
Why are deficiency disease caused?
A deficiency is a lack or shortage, therefore deficiency diseases are caused by a lack or shortage of necessary nutrients in the body. One example is scurvy, a disease associated with pirates that occurs when an individual suffers from a vitamin C deficiency.
What happens when you get scuvy?
Scurvy is a vitamin deficiency illness. Specifically deficiency of vitamin C. Symptoms include lethargy and lack of strength, various aches, loss of teeth and in extreme cases death.
Is beriberi a comunicable or non communicable disease?
It is a dietary deficiency disease. It happens when you do not eat the right foods. Not communicable.
How is vitamin A deficiency treated?
Vitamin A deficiency can be prevented or treated by taking vitamin supplements or by getting injections of the vitamin.
What vitamin deficiency causes someone to become an alcoholic?
Because alcohol reduces the ability of the intestine to absorb nutrients, even if supplements are taken.
What does vitamin K deficiency occur?
Newborns are especially prone to vitamin K deficiency
Is vitamin K deficiency common in adults?
Vitamin K deficiency in adults is rare
Which vitamin deficiency causes massive hemorrhaging in infants?
The deficiency of Vitamin K or menaquinone.
What is the prognosis for vitamin B6 deficiency?
The prognosis for correcting vitamin B6 deficiency is excellent
