Since spring, we usually have happy and pleasant expectations, but reality is often quite different. It is difficult to enjoy life when you are overtaken by general lethargy, drowsiness, irritability, hair becomes dull and brittle, the skin begins to peel off. All these symptoms are signs of spring avitaminosis.
Causes of vitamin deficiency
In fact, what is called avitaminosis in everyday communication, is not. Avitaminosis is a disease caused by the complete absence in the body of one or another vitally important vitamin, which can lead to very serious consequences. In today's world, it is almost impossible to obtain such a shortage of vitamins, except when they are simply not absorbed by the body for one reason or another.
In everyday life we are dealing with another phenomenon - hypovitaminosis , that is, a condition caused by a deficiency in the body of vitamins and trace elements. It is hypovitaminosis that causes various ailments, which are especially acute in the spring.
This is natural, since in winter, fresh fruit and greens are much less than in the summer. And those that we eat, contain not too many vitamins. By spring, in vegetables and fruits, albeit fresh, but kept long, the amount of vitamins is reduced by half. As a result, the decrease in the level of vitamins and microelements in the body, which began in the winter, reaches the stage by the spring when it triggers outward manifestations-the same spring vitamin deficiency.
Manifestations of spring vitamin deficiency
The main symptoms of avitaminosis include:
- increased fatigue, drowsiness, decreased attention;
- deterioration of hair and nails;
- appearance of poorly healing cracks in the corners of the mouth;
- bleeding gums;
- exacerbation of chronic diseases.
All these signs do not necessarily occur simultaneously. These or other symptoms directly depend on what kind of vitamin is not enough in the body.
So, reddening, peeling, dermatitis, rashes and other signs of vitamin deficiency on the skin are most often associated with a lack of vitamin A and B vitamins (in particular B2). Bleeding gums and poorly healing wounds indicate a deficiency in the first place of vitamin C, as well as vitamin E.
The appearance of vitamin deficiency on the face and skin can be caused by a lack of vitamin D. A decrease in the amount of vitamins D, E, A, B2 and PP causes stratification and increased fragility of the nails and other signs of beriberi on the hands.
How to treat beriberi?
Avitaminosis is a disease, and it needs to be treated. Many believe that in the summer, when a lot of fruits and vegetables appear in the diet, everything will pass by itself. Often, if the avitaminosis is not manifested in the hands or face in the form of serious problems, people do not think about how to combat avitaminosis in the spring.
But you can not let things go by themselves. After all, even with food we do not always get the necessary complex of vitamins and trace elements. In addition, to get the required amount of vitamins a person on average should eat up to one and a half kilograms of various vegetables and fruits a day, which is unlikely.
Therefore, with the first signs of vitamin deficiency, you should drink a course of vitamins. Polyvitaminic complexes are sold in any pharmacy, but it is better if the choice is agreed with the doctor. On average, the course lasts a month, taking vitamins better in the morning, drinking water without gas.
Prevention of spring vitamin deficiency
In order not to bring to the onset of symptoms, it is worth considering in advance how to prevent spring vitamin deficiency. This will help a balanced diet with the use of those products that contain the necessary vitamins.
- Vitamin A is found in butter,
carrots, beets. - Vitamin B1 - in cereals, fermented milk products.
- Vitamin B2 - in cheese, beans, buckwheat and oatmeal.
- Vitamin B6 is chicken, beef, nuts, beans, potatoes.
- Vitamin C - rose hips, apples, citrus fruits, sea buckthorn .
Vitamin complex is recommended to drink at the end of winter and early spring, even in the absence of signs of spring avitaminosis - as a preventive measure.