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What symptom does the body appear to indicate lack of vitamin C? Check the symptoms of vitamin C def

Vitamin C is a very important element for the human body. In life, people often say that the main reason to eat more fruit is to supplement the body with vitamin C. So do you know what symptoms appear in the body, indicating a lack of vitamin C? Let's talk about the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency. Let's have a look.

What are the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency

1. General symptoms

The onset is slow, and it takes about 3 ~ 4 months for vitamin C deficiency to appear symptoms. There are no specific symptoms in the early stage. Patients often have pale complexion, fatigue and weakness, anorexia, depression and so on. Children are irritable, do not gain weight, and can be accompanied by low fever, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.

2. Bleeding symptoms

Skin ecchymosis is a prominent manifestation. Scattered bleeding points can appear when the patient's skin is slightly squeezed. Purpura and ecchymosis are easy to appear after skin collision or compression. With the progress of the disease, the patient may have keratinization and bleeding around the hair follicle, and the hair root curls and becomes brittle. The gingiva is often swollen and bleeding, which is easy to cause secondary infection. The teeth can become loose and fall off due to alveolar necrosis. There may also be epistaxis and orbital subperiosteal hemorrhage causing exophthalmos. Occasional gastrointestinal bleeding, hematuria, intra-articular bleeding, and even intracranial bleeding. The patient may suddenly have convulsions, shock and even death.

3. Anaemia

Vitamin C deficiency can affect the absorption of iron. Patients in the late stage are often accompanied by anemia and pale complexion. Anemia is usually moderate, usually cellular anemia with normal hemoglobin. In a series of cases, 1 / 5 patients can also be megaloblastic anemia.

4. Skeletal symptoms

Vitamin C deficiency leads to bone matrix formation disorder, calcium deposition, unable to form bone tissue and easy to fracture; It can also lead to bone atrophy, loosening of periosteum and formation of subperiosteal hemorrhage.

5. Decreased immune function

Vitamin C deficiency can cause chemotaxis and bactericidal function of leukocytes, reduce the synthesis of immune antibodies, interfere with the transcription of mRNA virus and inhibit the antiviral ability of viral synthesis.

6. Other symptoms

* the patient can edema due to retention of water, and can also have jaundice, fever and other manifestations. Some patients have decreased or even lost secretory function of lacrimal gland, salivary gland and sweat gland, and have symptoms similar to Sjogren's syndrome. The wound healed poorly due to impaired collagen synthesis. Immune function is affected and easy to cause infection.