Hello Everybody!
Todays episode is an easy DIY approach to diagnose a common cause for certain common
signs and symptoms like hair loss or hair thinning, muscle pains, digestive upset, depression,
back ache and many others health problems which can be due to vitamin D deficiency in
your body.
If neglected, in the long run, this can be life threatening.
We will show you an easy DIY approach to diagnose this common problem of vitamin D deficiency,
particularly in adults.
Lets Start with the Approach What we use like: Age Sex Race Risk factors signs and symptoms,
diagnosis, investigations, treatment and the take home message finally:
Starting with the Age Sex and Race - According to many studies and researches,
this vitamin D deficiency is more prevalent in the 40 to 60 year old age groups.
- Male population is more affected than females.
- Over 80 percent African-Americans are Vitamin D deficient, 40 to 45 percent of adults in
the US, 70 percent in Hispanics and in Indians.
Lets learn about Risk Factors: If you have one or more of these, then you must be double
cautious about this problem.
- Staying indoors or always using sunscreen when going out.
- Pure Vegetarians (specially those who do not eat diary products, meat fish,etc)
- People Having dark skin (synthesis of Vitamin D from sunlight reduced).
- Being elderly - Being overweight or obese.
- Recent Major surgery.
- Living far from the equator where there is little sun year-round.
Signs and Symptoms: If you have one or more of these signs and symptoms, then follow the
advice given towards the end of this video.
- Falling Sick or Getting Infected Frequently (this is due to weaking of your immune system
due to Vitamin D deficiency).
- Feeling of Tiredness and inability to perform routine day to day activities.
- Frequent Muscle Pains, Back pain specially lowet back pain, Headaches.
- Depression, mood swings, irritable bowel and feeling of passing motions frequently
and anxiety.
- Impaired Wound healing and Bone loss (because Vitamin D is required for Calcium absorption)
� This can make you more prone to fractures with simple imjuries.
- Alopecia � that�s Hair Loss which is often attributed to stress and nutritional
deficiencies.
Hair loss can be in the form of hair thinning or even female pattern baldness or alopecia
aerate.
- Dizziness or vertigo is another common symptom of severe vitamin D deficiency.
Now the Investigations required for final diagnosis:
If you think you have these matching symptoms, you need to confirm the diagnosis.
You can consult with your doctor and get your Vitamin D blood levels measured.
0-20 ng/ml � deficient , 21 to 30ng/ml � Insufficiency and normal range is generally above 60ng/ml.
Now the Treatement Part: Luckily, vitamin D deficiency is usually easy
to fix depending on your blood levels.
The First and Foremost step you need to take is cut off your risk factor that�s most
commonly reduced sunlight exposure.
- You can either increase your sun exposure � atleast 20 minutes and 20 percent of your
skin exposed to sun.
- Eat Foods rich in vitamin-D, such as fatty fish, or fortified dairy products, or simply
take vitamin D supplement easily available from your medical store.
- If you have severe deficiency, your doctor will generally prescribe you high dose vitamin
D sachets of 60000 IU.
You can take this powder in a cup of milk weekly once for atleast 3 months and then
recheck your blood levels.
Now Finally the Take Home Message: Vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common
and most people are unaware of it.
And Fortunately Fixing your deficiency is simple, easy and can have big benefits for
your health.
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