First and foremost, it is important to know what makes Vitamin D important to one’s health and well being. One of the functions of this vitamin to one’s health is that it helps in preventing the development of any chronic diseases in the body, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and hypertension. More than this, it makes the bones strong and the teeth of the person healthy. It also helps in the regulating the growth and other activities of one’s cells. Lastly, since inflammation is one of the causes of other health ailments, Vitamin D prevents that to happen to organs and other parts of the body.
Stating the above functions and what help does Vitamin D gives to the body; it is easy then to notice any symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency. For this list, symptoms of this vitamin’s deficiency are focused on the bones.
- There frequent bone pain and/or the bones are soft – given that Vitamin D helps promotes strong bones, any lack or not enough supply of this can lead to symptoms that is bone-related. And pain and softness of bones are one of these.
- Frequent bone fracture – as stated above, Vitamin D helps makes one’s bones stronger. It is easy then to understand when one get easily fractured when one do not have strong bones. In the event of any incident where bones is accidentally used to support one’s balance or fall, the bone cannot sustain the impact or pressure thus leading to bone fracture. If this happens all the time to a person, it can be deducted that he has Vitamin D deficiency.
- Retarded Growth/Deformities in Children – children who lacks Vitamin D will show retardation in their growth since the body which is nourished by the vitamin does not receive any. Thus, deformities and growth can be affected.