Vitamin D deficiency symptoms and how they affect your health.

It would be a wise decision for your health to have a vitamin D blood test, so you can be sure.

The sun is the best source of vitamin D and if possible it should be our major source.

Vitamin D is needed for our body to absorb calcium and phosphate. In turn this promotes normal bone formation and mineralization.

Without Vitamin D being generated in our bodies by the sunlight and a vitamin deficient diet with poor supplementation, a Vitamin D deficiency is inevitable.

As a result our body is not able to absorb proper amounts of Calcium and Phosphates causing a condition known as hypocalcaemia, one of the vitamin D deficiency symptoms.

Let me clarify something here. It’s overexposure to the sunlight that causes skin damage and may (and often does) lead to skin cancer and other chronic conditions. On the other hand a lack of Vitamin D leads to disease and possibly skin cancer. The sun is good for us! Good sense and moderation in the sun is the key.

Vitamin D deficiency symptoms

You could experience muscle pain, muscle weakness, bone pain and fragility at any age. If the deficiency is severe it could result in softening of the bones or osteoporosis. In children the condition is called rickets.

Some other Vitamin D deficiency symptoms could be depression, chronic depression, chronic fatigue, autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, certain cancers and heart disease.

Vitamin D may not be a major factor in these symptoms but rather a contributing factor. Any deficiency that breaks down the immune system is a factor with any disease, including skin cancer.

Vitamin D deficiency symptoms in women

A deficiency could affect the fetus and a severe deficiency could result in a newborn with rickets or fractures.

If an infant is born with this serious of a Vitamin D deficiency the child would have softening of the entire skull and other possible conditions of the skull.

As the child grows, walking could be painful and they could develop such deformities as knock knees or bow legs.


If you have any of the Vitamin D deficiency symptoms there is a simple Vitamin D blood test available so you can know for sure.

I would definitely recommend that you see a holistic doctor of natural medicine for this blood test.

Since holistic doctors are not as readily available as medical doctors, you might have to look in the yellow pages or do a Google search for your area. Asking at a local health food store might help.

You can go to a medical doctor for this test, but usually they don’t have the training to order the correct test. If you do go to a medical doctor be sure he orders the correct test.

The Vitamin D blood test is called one of the four given below:

Vitamin D 25 Hydroxy level…or… 25(OH) D level…or… 25OHD level…or… 25 hydroxyvitamin d level

You might want to bring this information with you when you visit your doctor.

Compare test results to the levels shown below:

• Deficient level <50 ng/ml

• Optimal level 50-70 ng/ml

• To treat cancer and heart disease 70-100 ng/ml

• Excess >100 ng/ml

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