Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency) occurs when there is low level of calcium left in blood. It is caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D because vitamin D helps to absorbs calcium properly in your body. Calcium deficiency may not cause symptoms immediately or early but if it is a long term deficiency it may cause many problems. Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency)
Problems caused by Hypocalcemia:
- Dental health problems
- Bones becomes weak
- Cataracts(eye lens becomes cloudy)
- Changes in brain functions
- Osteoporosis(silent disease)
- Muscle cramps
- Coarse hair
- Dry skin
- Fainting fatigue
- Brittle nails
If any of these symptom you have you may have calcium deficiency
What cause calcium deficiency in your body?
if you are not taking food which contains (calcium) in your diet it can cause calcium deficiency. Other than this deficiency of Vitamin D Phosphorus and magnesium also lead to this . More intake of caffeine and alcohol.
Food which contains calcium:
- Yogurt
- Cheese
- Milk
- Oranges
- Broccoli
- Spinach
- Soy milk
- Almond
- Bean
- Kale
- Figs
- Salmon(fish)
- Chia seeds
- Soybeans
- Cottage cheese
- Sesame
- Navy bean
- Tofu
All the dairy products and leafy green plants contains calcium
Vitamin D :
Vitamin D helps body to absorbs calcium in your body which build your bones and make them strong .Vitamin D controls the cells growth which can cause cancer . It also helps you to control infections from happening in your body. Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency)
How can you get VITAMIN D naturally ?
You can get Vitamin D naturally by sunlight . Sun is the best source of the nutrient Vitamin D. Eating leafy vegetables also helps to get this nutrient. If you have Vitamin D deficiency you may feel sleep disorder and other problems like Calcium deficiency.
How it will effect your nails and skin?
This is one of the symptoms of you having long term calcium deficiency .
firsly it will make your skin dry and you may sometimes feels tickling in your palms and foots , sometimes skin also feels like itchy.
it makes your nails weak , broken , brittle.
How it will effect your Dental health?
When your blood contains low level of calcium . It takes it from another source in your body (Teeth) , which leads to poor health of dental. It cause tooth decay , brittle teeth , weak roots of teeth , irritations in gums . Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency)
you will see white spots on your teeth and sometimes broken or abnormal shaped edge of tooth .
Calcium deficiency disturbs brains functions
How it can disturb your brains functions?
This deficiency cause depression or mood swings . Like you feel depressed over small details or your mood changes very quickly without any reason .
Treatment
Any man , women , children can have this deficiency at any age but We don’t need to worry much about this because that is what we can handle by our own .
Calcium deficiency is very easy to treat at home all we have to do is adding food in our diet which contains calcium e.g green leafy vegetables , milk , alond , cheese and make sure we don’t have any vitamin deficiency so If have any than we have to cure that first like VITAMIN D .That vitamin specially helps to absorbs calcium but Other than this we can also take calcium supplements which helps to cure this deficiency .
Warning: do not take excess amount of supplements it may cause Hypercalcemia .
Now what is Hypercalcemia?
When there is high level of calcium in your blood it is called hypercalcemia so No doubt it makes your dental health good but as we know we have to balance the nutrients and vitamins in our body neutrally so excessive amount of calcium also cause problems for your health . Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency)
Problems caused by Hypercalcemia
- Makes your bones weak
- Produce kidney stones
- Disturb your heart and brain work
How much calcium your body’s need ?
The average body needs 1,000 Mg of calcium per day at the adult age if the age is above 51 (FOR WOMEN) , and above 71 (FOR MEN) . You have to increase your calcium intake upto 1,200 Mg with respect to age , if you don’t take that much calcium which your body needs you might have to face many problems. Especially bones weakness and dental problems . Hypocalcemia(calcium deficiency)