The article is devoted to the disease of scurvy, its symptoms and healing. After reading this article can be to find out its manifestations at the initial stage, as the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net A scurvy is a disease that develops with a permanent lack of vitamin C in food. This disease has been known since ancient times and is directly related to poor nutrition and the lack of essential nutrients in the diet. Previously scurvy sick sailors or travelers, because they lacked new products.

Often in the northern regions, due to a lack of vitamin C in the present period, there is scurvy. This disease in infants until about 4 months is not observed, because the right vitamin C comes from breastfeeding, but with artificial feeding, perhaps the first symptoms of scurvy will manifest.

Usual symptoms of scurvy in babies begin to manifest at the age of 1 to 2 years, less often children's scurvy manifests itself in older age. The first symptoms of scurvy look as follows: there is no appetite, the child complains of upset stomach or digestive tract, there may be diarrhea, vomiting. Kids become sluggish, a pale complexion appears, they lose weight and, usually, their growth slows down. Children's immunity weakens, resistance to infections decreases. Various infections can occur in the middle ear, lungs, genitalia and other. After a while, babies of preschool age display hemorrhagic diathesis - it is a rash that appears on the cheeks, in the neck folds, in the eye area and the auricles. Skin covers burst and there are wounds that heal very slowly. There are multifunctional disorders in the joints, bones, walls of blood vessels, cartilage.

In childhood, symptoms of scurvy may be pain in the limbs. Direct attention to the baby, who sobs and complains about the pain in the muscles - this may be the first manifestation of such a disease as scurvy. Symptoms appear due to subperiosteal hematoma, which in the initial stage causes, quite painful feelings and swelling on the arms and legs. In complex form, the patient begins to "protect" his painful feelings, in other words, when touched, strains the limbs, producing a memory of paralyzed. In this case, begins to exfoliate the epiphysis.

Scurvy is a disease that can be fought if it's time to take action, knowing the main symptoms. For example, at the initial stage, the surface of the gums is fairly smooth, smooth, shiny, then the gum begins to burst and, usually, bleed, flow off.

Then the color of the gums changes, becomes blue, and sometimes purple. As a result of the configurations there is a nasty smell from the mouth, which visually shows us that the person is sick, and the name given to the ailment is scurvy. Disease in this form in toddlers in modern times actually do not occur. Occasionally, scurvy manifests itself in a lighter form, and its symptom is weakened immunity and insignificant bleeding from the gums.

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