Hypo-vitaminosis and Avitaminosis are the Most Widespread Vitamin Diseases

Added: 01/30/2006

Vitamins are the major component ration of human. For normal ability of an organism to live the certain quantity of vitamins in a daily ration of human is necessary. Human receives vitamins with vegetative food or with meat products. All vitamins concern to a category of biologically active substances. In connection with a lack of vitamins of an organism there can be such vitamin diseases as hypo-vitaminosis. At the full absence of vitamins in food can arise such disease as an avitaminosis.

The Principal cause of some vitamin diseases like hypo-vitaminosis and avitaminosis is a lack of vitamins of an organism. Deficiency of vitamins in an organism can arise as a result action of some factors: shortage of vitamins in a daily ration, infringement process of mastering of vitamins in a digestive path, pregnancy and feeding by breast. The reason of many vitamin diseases occurrence is a lack of vitamins. For example, a lack of vitamin and bone disease are closely connected with each other.

Among vitamin diseases there are the most distributed hypo-vitaminos A, B, C, D, E. At the lack of vitamin A twilight vision is broken, dryness of skin and mucous membranes can arise. For prevention of hypo-vitaminosis A occurrence it is necessary to use daily 3 mg of vitamin A. This vitamin in plenty contains in such products as eggs, milk, fat meat, liver, carrots and tomatoes.

Complex of vitamins B concern to a number of major vitamins. At hypovitaminos B such symptoms as infringement of cardiovascular activity, nervous system, pathological changes of integuments and dysfunction of gastroenteric path are observed. Besides this vitamin and head diseases are closely interconnected. Infringement of some brain functions is direct consequence deficiency of vitamins B in an organism. Vitamins B contain in products of an animal origin. The daily requirement of organism for vitamins B does not exceed 4 mg. However, based on a lack of the minimum daily amounts of these vitamins, it is necessary to use special mega-vitamin products or multivitamin complexes.

Vitamin C is available in most vegetable products (green onions, currant, citrus, dogrose, cabbage, pepper); however, during cooking or steaming almost 60 % of the vitamin is destroyed. However, in human's, the daily amount of cooked or fried food which contains not enough vitamin C, so doctors recommend practically all people to use additional dozes of ascorbic acid. Vitamin C carries out rather important functions in an organism. It adjusts synthesis of collagen, participates in formation of steroid hormones and plays the important role in the carbohydrate exchange and coagulability of blood.

With a lack of vitamin C in an organism processes of pathological change of capillaries and vessels begin. The daily requirement of an adult human organism in vitamin C makes about 70 mg. At pregnancy, heavy physical loading or amplified intellectually work the doze of vitamin C can be increased in 1.5-2 times.

Vitamin D concerns to a number of vitamins which act in an organism in two ways. This vitamin can be developed by an organism under the influence of solar beams and act with animal food. At a lack of vitamin D such serious vitamin diseases as a rickets and pathological fragility of bones arise.

At hypo-vitaminos E can arise some specific vitamin diseases. Vitamin E adjusts functioning of female reproductive system, therefore at a lack of this vitamin to one of characteristic symptoms can become infertile. In this case doctors recommend using medical preparations with vitamin E and to increase consumption of products which contain plenty of these vitamins. To such products concern: bananas, cereals, and vegetable oil.

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