Scientists have named one of the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency

Musculoskeletal pain can be one of the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency. Vitaly Zverev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology at Sechenov University, told RBC about this.

“This is one of the symptoms [of musculoskeletal pain]. Vitamin D is very important, it is not for nothing that children used to be given fish oil, which also contains it. It is especially necessary for children, for bones, ”the academician explained.

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According to him, the lack of a vitamin can be caused by improper metabolism, in which case the body does not receive the vitamin in the right amount. But its overabundance is just as dangerous for humans, he noted.

“Each vitamin has its own formulas, it is built into the metabolism. And, if, say, there is a drawback, it is bad. When there is an overabundance, there can be side effects. Vitamins are the same medicines that need to be taken when necessary, ”Zverev explained, adding that with the right diet, a person should have enough vitamin D in foods.

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An immunologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences Vladislav Zhemchugov, in a conversation with RBC, noted that for many years he had not seen vitamin D deficiency in patients. According to him, an overdose of the vitamin is the most dangerous.

“For example, children who are overdosed on vitamin D are deprived of the opportunity to grow. Of all the vitamins: the rest just go down the drain, and D accumulates and the effect can be so severe, ”explained the immunologist.

At the same time, Zhemchugov added that a violation of calcium metabolism causes musculoskeletal pain.

Throughout 2020, scientists have spoken several times about the benefits of vitamin D in treating and preventing COVID-19 . So, at the end of September, experts from the Boston University School of Medicine in the United States reported that mortality from coronavirus is lower among patients who have sufficient levels of the vitamin in their blood. They analyzed the medical data of 235 patients infected with COVID-19 and found that among the deceased patients older than 40 years, only 9.7% had enough of this vitamin, compared to 20% of those who died in which the amount of vitamin D was below a certain value. Similar data was obtained by researchers from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation and the University of East Anglia.

However, in May 2020, the World Health Organization stated that there was no evidence of a link between vitamin D deficiency and higher mortality from infection.