vitamin D deficiency
Lacking sunshine nutrient
Vitamin D deficiency is inadequate levels of vitamin D in the body, typically from insufficient sunlight exposure, dietary intake, or absorption problems.
It can cause bone weakness, fatigue, and muscle pain.
In severe cases, it leads to rickets in children or osteomalacia in adults.
Her doctor discovered a vitamin D deficiency during routine bloodwork.
- ricketsNutritional bone-weakening illness
- weak bonesLow bone density
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- bone painDiscomfort in skeletal tissue
- boneHard skeletal tissue
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- bone disordersosteoporosis, rickets, bone fracture, broken bone, bone loss
- deficienciesdeficit, lack, shortage, insufficiency, shortfall
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
- growth disordersdwarfism, gigantism, overgrowth, stunted growth, stunting
- endocrinehormones, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal, parathyroid
- seasonal ailmentsflu, cold, common cold, seasonal flu, influenza