How to understand if vitamin D is reduced?

 

Vitamin D deficiency can cause bone pain. Photo-Collected

Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that the body uses for normal bone development and maintenance. Vitamin D plays an important role in maintaining the nervous system and muscles. It is called the sunshine vitamin. Because the body makes it from cholesterol when the skin is exposed to sunlight.

Why is vitamin D so important?

Vitamin D is one of the many vitamins the body needs to stay healthy. It plays an important role in blood and bone calcium balance and in bone formation and maintenance. We need vitamin D so that the body can use calcium and phosphorus to build bones and keep tissues healthy.Chronic or severe vitamin D deficiency impairs intestinal calcium and phosphorus absorption. This leads to hypocalcemia (low calcium levels in the blood). The body takes calcium from the bones to try to balance calcium levels in the blood, which leads to bone loss. This can lead to osteomalacia (soft bones) in adults and rickets in children.

Osteomalacia and osteoporosis increase the risk of bone fractures. Rickets is similar to osteomalacia, but only in children.

What are the signs of vitamin deficiency?

Vitamin D helps to boost our immune system. It strengthens the body's own immune system and helps protect us from viruses and bacteria. Vitamin D directly interacts with cells that work to fight infection. Deficiency of this vitamin can lead to frequent illness.

Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium. Deficiency of the vitamin can therefore lead to bone and lower back pain.

Feeling tired can be caused by a number of reasons, one of which may be vitamin D deficiency.

One of the many causes of depression can be insufficient levels of vitamin D.

Vitamin D increases the production of compounds that are important for the formation of new skin as part of the wound healing process. Inadequate vitamin D can cause delayed wound healing.

Vitamin D plays an important role in calcium absorption and metabolism. This is important because taking vitamin D and calcium at the same time helps the body to absorb it maximally. Loss of bone density means that bones have lost calcium and other minerals. This puts older adults, especially women, at risk of fracture.

Vitamin D deficiency can cause muscle pain. One study found that 71 percent of people with chronic pain had low levels of vitamin D.

Source: Cleveland Clinic and Healthline