Deficiency Of Vitamin C

Deficiency Of Vitamin C

Question 1. Deficiency of vitamin C.
Answer.

Deficiency Of Vitamin C

• Vitamin C deficiency causes a disease called scurvy.
• The capillaries are fragile, and there is a tendency to haemorrhage.
• The haemorrhage may be subcutaneous, subperiosteal or internal.
• Wound healing is deficient due to decreased formation of collagen.
• Poor teeth formation.

Deficiency of Vitamin C: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms and How to Diagnose

• Gums are swollen, spongy and bleed on slightest pressure.
• In severe infection there may be secondary infection, loosening and falling of teeth.
• Mineralization of the bone is poor and the bones are weak and easily fractured.
• Bones and joints are extremely painful.
• Hypochromic microcytic anemia.
• Elderly bachelors and widowers, who prepare their own food, are particularly prone to the development of vitamin C deficiency.
  This is called bachelor scurvy.

Deficiency of Vitamin C: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Question 2. Functions of vitamin D.
Answer.

• Calcitriol increases the intestinal absorption of calcium and phosphorus by increasing the synthesis of calcium binding protein. This protein increases calcium absorption by the intestine
• In the osteoblasts of the bone, calcitriol stimulates calcium uptake for deposition as calcium phosphate. Thus calcitriol is essential for bone formation

Scurvy and Other Symptoms of Vitamin C Deficiency

• Calcitriol increases the reabsorption of calcium and phosphorus by the kidney and thus decreases their excretion in the urine .