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Avitaminosis: find and neutralize
Spring brings us not only the long-awaited warmth and intoxicating blossoming of nature. Its constant companion – compulsive avitaminosis, leading to other diseases. Therefore, the prevention of avitaminosis should be engaged in advance.
The consequence leads the body
How to recognize and fight avitaminosis before it makes a hole in the immune system and provokes other diseases? As a rule, the symptoms of avitaminosis are manifested by a whole complex of external changes. The skin becomes dry and begins to peel, hair splits and falls out, the corners of the lips crack, gums bleed when brushing teeth. Waking up in the morning is a huge effort, and during the day everything literally falls out of hand, overcome by apathy and irritation. Finally, if you are treating non-persistent colds for weeks, it is a sure sign of avitaminosis.
Often the body signals the lack of specific elements. For example, deteriorating eyesight and brittle hair can be signs of vitamin A deficiency. Rapid fatigue, poor sleep and appetite indicate a need for B vitamins. If small wounds take a long time to heal and gums are swollen and sore, vitamin C needs to be replenished immediately. Low levels of vitamins D and E are much more difficult to detect. It can be indicated by unreasonable weight loss and profuse sweating.
The causes of avitaminosis are different. First of all, it is a poorly balanced diet. With a scarce selection of fresh fruits and vegetables in winter to establish a diet is problematic, hence the lack of useful substances. Sedentary lifestyle and bad habits also deal a crushing blow to the immune system. Often negative factors lie in the external environment. Short daylight hours and deplorable state of ecology, especially in megacities, seriously undermine our health.
Diet for immunity
How to prevent avitaminosis at the earliest stages? First of all, take care of a nutritious diet. Include in the diet all available seasonal vegetables: carrots, cabbage, beets, beets, pumpkin, radishes, celery. Fresh salads should be on the menu every day. Be sure to put them onions and garlic. The first in shocking doses contains potassium, iron, vitamins B, C and PP. The second abounds in essential oils, magnesium, calcium, selenium and zinc, which increase immune defense.
A healthy diet for avitaminosis can not be imagined without citrus fruits. They are valuable not only ascorbic acid, but also because they improve heart function, adjust metabolism. Raspberries, cherries, sea buckthorn, strawberries, black and red currants – a powerful nourishment for the body. Even in frozen form, they retain maximum benefits. Real vitamin and mineral bombs are any nuts. Just do not get carried away with them, because it is extremely caloric and heavy food.
Diet in avitaminosis prescribes 2-3 times a week to eat dishes of red meat and liver, alternating with lean fish and seafood. Pay more attention to cottage cheese, kefir, ryazhenka and yogurt. By the way, their benefits can be enhanced by adding honey, cinnamon or cardamom. Load up on whole grain cereal, mainly buckwheat and oatmeal. Add more fresh herbs, green onions, spinach and leaf lettuce to your menu. At the same time, refuse sausages, smoked meats and any fast food. Replace cakes, cookies, chocolate bars and candies with dried fruits, honey, bitter chocolate and marshmallows.
Vitamin treasury
Very effective in the treatment of avitaminosis folk remedies. One of them – salad “brush”, familiar to all thinning. Combine in a bowl 200 g of shredded cabbage, grated carrots, beets and a bunch of celery, salt and dressed with olive oil. This vegetable mix will saturate the body with vitamins and cleanse it of toxins.
With avitaminosis, dried fruits are indispensable. Put in a saucepan of 5-6 fruits of prunes, apricots, figs and uruk, a handful of raisins and a couple of lemon slices. Pour them a glass of water, cook for 5 minutes and strain. The mixture can be eaten immediately, flavored with honey, but it is better to add it to rice porridge or cottage cheese.
Decoction of rose hips – emergency help to the body with avitaminosis. Pour 1 liter of water 5 tbsp. liters of rose hips and cook for 10 minutes. Pour the decoction into a thermos, leave overnight and drink all day instead of tea. To enhance the effect, you can steam rose hips with 1 tbsp. black currant.
As folk recipes for avitaminosis are good tinctures. Mix in a glass jar lemon zest, 1 tbsp. aloe juice, 5 dried cloves, ½ tsp. cinnamon and ¼ tsp. nutmeg. Pour the mixture with 500 ml of honey, 500 ml of vodka, stir and insist for 10 days. Take the tincture is recommended to take 1 tbsp. twice a day.
Overcome avitaminosis will help germinated seeds. Grind in a coffee grinder 100 g dry sprouts of barley, wheat and rye. Pour 3 tbsp. of this flour with a liter of boiling water, insist 30 minutes and strain. Drink the potion 1 tbsp. three times a day, and soon neuroses and chronic fatigue will recede.
Of course, these means are not a panacea. Therefore, it will not be superfluous to ask the doctor about how to treat avitaminosis. Do not take this disease lightly, and even more so to treat it yourself.