Vitamin D Deficiency وٹامن ڈی کی کمی

Vitamin D deficiency means that your vitamin D intake is not enough to stay healthy.

Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium which  is one of the main building blocks of bone. This vitamin also plays a role in your nervous, muscle, and immune systems.

Vitamin D can be absorbed in three ways: through skin, from diet, and from supplements. Our body forms vitamin D naturally in soft and mild sunlight for 5 to 10 minutes.

amounts, in international units (IU), are:

 Birth to 12 months: 400 IU

·       Children 1-13 years: 600 IU

·         Teens 14-18 years: 600 IU

·         Adults 19-70 years: 600 IU

·         Adults 71 years and older: 800 IU

·         Pregnant and breastfeeding women: 600 IU

People at high risk of vitamin D deficiency may need more. Check with your doctor about the quantity you require.

You can fall victim to this deficiency when:

·         You don't receive enough vitamin D in your diet

·         You don't absorb enough vitamin D from food (a malabsorption )

·         You don't have enough exposure to sunlight.

·         Your liver or kidneys cannot convert vitamin D to its active form in the body.

·         You take medicines that interfere with your body's ability to convert or absorb vitamin D

 

Some people are at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency:

·         Breastfed infants, because human milk is a poor source of vitamin D. If you are breastfedding, give your infant a supplement of 400 IU of vitamin D every day.

·         Older adults, because your skin doesn't produce vitamin D in sunlight as efficiently as when you were young, and your kidneys are less unable to convert vitamin D to its active form.

·         People with dark skin, which falls short to produce vitamin D from the sun.

·         People with disorders like Crohn's disease or celiac disease who don't handle fat properly, because vitamin D needs fat to be absorbed.

·         People who have obesity, because body fat binds to some vitamin D and stops it from getting into the blood.

·         People who have had gastric bypass surgery 

·         People with osteoporois 

·         People with chronic kidney or liver disease .

·         People with heyperarathyroidism (too much of a hormone that controls the body's calcium level)

·         People with sarcoidosis , tuberculosis, histoplasmosis , or other granulomatous disease (disease with granulomas, collections of cells caused by chronic inflammation)

·         People suffering from lymphomas , a type of cancer.

·         People who take medicines that affect vitamin D metabolism, such as cholestyramine (a cholesterol drug), anti-seizure drugs, glucocorticoids , antifungal drugs, and HIV/ AIDS medicines.

Vitamin D deficiency often leads to a loss of bone density , which can generally contribute to osteoporosis and fractures (broken bones) and especially other complicated diseases.

In children, it can cause rickets, a rare disease that causes the bones to become soft and bend. African American infants and children are at higher risk of getting rickets. In adults, severe vitamin D deficiency leads to osteomalacia. Osteomalacia causes weak bones, bone pain, and muscle weakness.

A few foods naturally have some vitamin D:

·         Fatty fish such as salmon, tuna, and mackerel

·         Beef liver

·         Cheese

·         Mushrooms

·         Egg yolks

You can also receive vitamin D from fortified foods.

·         Milk

·         Breakfast cereals

·         Orange juice

·         Other dairy products, such as yogurt

·         Soy drinks

Vitamin D is in many multivitamins. There are also vitamin D supplements, both in pills and a liquid for babies.

If you have vitamin D deficiency, the treatment is with supplements.

But remember that too much intake of vitamin D (known as vitamin D toxicity) can be harmful. Signs of toxicity include nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, constipation, weakness, and weight loss. Vitamin D in excess can also damage the kidneys and raises the level of calcium in your blood. High levels of blood calcium (hypercalcemia) can cause confusion, disorientation, and problems with heart rhythm.

Most cases of vitamin D toxicity happen in cases of overuses vitamin D supplements. Excessive sun exposure doesn't cause vitamin D poisoning because the body limits the amount of this vitamin it produces.

Today we tell you about a single herb remedy to cure this problem with the help of suitable diet explained earlier.

وٹامن ڈی جسم میں ہڈیوں کی نشونما میں اہم کردار ادا کرتا ہے ـ اس وٹامن کو حاصل کرنے کا سب سے اچھا ذریعہ صبح کی نرم دھوپ ہے جس کا دورانیہ 5 سے 10 منٹ ہونا چاہیئے ـ اس کے علاوہ دودھ، جو کا دلیہ، نارنگی کا جوس، دہی وغیرہ بھی وٹامن ڈی حاصل کرنے کا مناسب ذریعہ ہیں ـ آج ہم ایک ایسی دوا بتائینگے جو غذا کے ساتھ اس مسئلے کے سدباب میں اہم کردار ادا کرتی ہے ـ

 ھوالشافی

موصلی سفید 100 گرام

Chlorophytum borivilianum   100 gm

موصلی سفید پیس لیں اور کسی شیشے کی بوتل میں محفوظ کرلیں ـ روزانہ ایک چائے کا چمچہ صبح شام آدھا کپ نیم گرم دودھ کے ساتھ کھائیں ـ

Grind the herb and keep it safe in a glass bottle. Take one teaspoonful twice a day with lukewarm half cup of milk.