Deficiency Disease

Deficiency Disease is a disease caused by insufficient dietary intake of essential nutrients, which include vitamins, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids.

Lack of vitamins can lead to diseases such as scurvy (lack of vitamin C), rickets (lack of vitamin D), pellagra (lack of vitamin B3), anemia (lack of vitamin B12 and folic acid), etc.

A lack of amino acids, especially essential ones, disrupts protein synthesis in the body. This leads to delayed growth and development, decreased immunity.

Insufficient intake of fatty acids, in particular polyunsaturated ones (omega-3 and omega-6), affects the functioning of the nervous system, heart, skin and other organs.

Thus, deficiency diseases pose a serious threat to health and require a balanced diet with sufficient vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids. Timely diagnosis and correction of nutritional deficiencies helps prevent the development of severe complications.

Deficiency disease is a disease caused by insufficient dietary intake of essential nutrients, which include vitamins, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids.

The lack of these important nutrients leads to disruption of metabolic processes in the body and the development of specific symptoms. Classic examples of deficiency diseases are scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), rickets (vitamin D deficiency), anemia (iron or vitamin B12 deficiency), and pellagra (niacin deficiency).

The causes of the development of deficiency diseases may be associated with poor nutrition, impaired absorption of nutrients in the intestines, and the body’s increased need for certain substances.

To prevent and treat deficiency diseases, improve the nutritional structure, enrich foods with vitamins and minerals, prescribe multivitamin complexes, as well as medications containing nutrients necessary for the body.

Deficiency disease is a serious illness that can occur in a person due to a lack of essential nutrients in the diet. Different diseases have different causes and patterns, but they are all related to nutritional deficiencies. The body's inability to meet its needs can lead to serious health consequences.

One example of such a disease is hemolytic disease of the newborn (also known as Rhesus disease). This disease is caused by antigen incompatibility between the mother's blood and the baby's blood. As pregnancy progresses, antibodies enter the mother's bloodstream, which can then pass through the plasma.