Vitamin D Deficiency can cost you more

Vitamin D is as important for our health as other vitamins. It plays an important role in the growth and development of bones in our body. Even then we pay almost no attention to the importance of this vital vitamin until we start experiencing serious consequences of our ignorance. One factor that has ostensibly led to this is the lack of knowledge in many people.

Importance of Vitamin D in our Body

Vitamin D is a vital vitamin to ensure good health, overall growth and strong bones. It has been seen that a lack of vitamin D is very common, but most of the times people do not come to know about the deficiency. Reason being, they do not know how to get this vitamin in profuse. On the other hand, fashion cautious people shun the sun in order to saving their skin from getting darker, thus completely neglecting the most important source of Vitamin D – the sun. A host of people in India do not know that Vitamin D is mostly made in the skin by exposure to sunlight. Some think that they take vitamin rich diet so how can they have deficiency of certain vitamin. Perhaps they do not know that most foods they take contain very little vitamin D naturally, though some are fortified with added vitamin D. People do not experience major symptoms if they have mild lack of Vitamin D in them. Mild lack of this vital vitamin can only cause tiredness and general aches and pains. But if not taken well care of in the beginning, a severe lack can invite serious health problems such as rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.

                                                                 

Vitamin D Deficiency Treatment

What is Vitamin D Deficiency Treatment? You must have heard every Vitamin D Deficient asking the same question over and again. Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency is with vitamin D supplements. If someone is Vitamin D Deficient, he or she needs to adhere to a strict diet full of Vitamin D, including some fish, fish liver oils, and egg yolks and in fortified dairy and grain products and spend some amount of time under the sun. Known as the sunshine vitamin, Vitamin D is profusely produced by the body in response to sunlight. People who are more at risk of vitamin D deficiency are recommended to take vitamin D supplements on a regular basis. Aged people, breast-feeding women, pregnant women and growing children need an extra amount of vitamin D because it is required for growth. 

No matter whether you are suffering for Vitamin D Deficiency or not, testing for the insufficiency is not recommended for everyone. In case you do not know whether you are Vitamin D Deficient or not, you can undergo a normal test to find out. SRL Diagnostics is a renowned and well-staffed Diagnostics Services Provider offer Vitamin D Deficient Test at all its labs across India. You can visit your nearest SRL Diagnostics Lab and undergo the test.