What are the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency in children?

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Ascorbic acid is usually known as vitamin C. Vitamin C is to protect our body from free radicals, mainly to stabilize the human cell membrane and antioxidant. Vitamin C is also a coenzyme. The main intake comes from all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. The molecular formula of vitamin is [c6h8o6].

What are the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency in children?

General lack will appear: lip rupture, skin burst, gingival bleeding, loss of appetite, no mental fatigue, self immunity decline, hardening of blood vessel wall and some detoxification and repair functions of the body decline, easy to bleed, and not easy to stop, etc.

In addition to the above symptoms, severe vitamin C deficiency can lead to sepsis. If you do not take vitamin C (or any food containing vitamin C) for more than 30 days, you may have severe sepsis, and even cause irreparable consequences to your own life.

Fruit: kiwi fruit contains the highest content of vitamin C! Kiwi fruit, fresh jujube, seabuckthorn and grapefruit contain more than 100 mg of vitamin C per 100 g! Eat some properly. Green pepper, longan, tomato, strawberry, cabbage, cucumber, citrus, cauliflower and other vitamin C content is also very high.

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Many green leafy vegetables, Brassica oleracea and green peppers are rich in vitamin C, such as cabbage, rape, coriander, spinach, celery, amaranth, vegetable moss, pea, cowpea and radish. But the vegetables with the most vitamin C are broccoli, also known as broccoli, which contains the most VC in the vegetable world! It is more than 6 times of tomato VC content!