What are the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency

If you often like to eat meat but not vegetables and fruits, it is easy to cause vitamin deficiency in the body. If the body lacks vitamin E, men will not produce sperm, or the quality of sperm will be poor, affecting fertility. If an ordinary person lacks vitamin E in his body, it is easy to cause anemia. Eating some foods containing vitamins every day is very beneficial to your health.

1. What are the symptoms of vitamin E deficiency?

1. When vitamin E is deficient, male testicles atrophy and no sperm is produced, female embryos and placentas atrophy, causing miscarriage, and the pituitary gland is hindered from regulating the secretion of estrogen from the ovaries, thus inducing menopausal syndrome and premature ovarian failure.

2. When vitamin E is deficient, the free radicals produced during the human body's metabolism can not only cause lipid peroxidation of biological membranes, destroy the structure and function of cell membranes, and form lipofuscin; but also cause protein deformation, inactivation of enzymes and hormones, decreased immunity, metabolic disorders, and promote aging of the body.

3. Mild hemolytic anemia caused by hemolysis of red blood cells.

4. Spinocerebellar disease, which occurs mainly in children, is caused by abetalipoproteinemia, chronic cholestatic hepatobiliary disease, celiac disease, or a genetic abnormality of vitamin E metabolism with fat malabsorption.

5. The infant is in a state of relative vitamin E deficiency at birth, with plasma α-tocopherol levels below 5 μg/ml (11.6 μmol/L). The younger and more premature the baby, the greater the deficiency. Vitamin E deficiency persists in premature infants during the first weeks of life and is attributed to limited placental transfer of vitamin E, low tissue concentrations at birth, the infant's relatively deficient diet, poor intestinal absorption, and rapid growth.

2. Things to know about taking vitamin E

1. Vitamin E should be stored away from light.

2. Taking vitamin E capsules can cure bleeding or excessive menstruation that occurs after some women have an IUD placed.

3. Taking more than 300 mg of vitamin E daily can reduce the body's immune function and impair the function of the body's T lymphocytes, B cells and mononuclear phagocyte system, making it prone to various diseases.

4. Taking more than 400 mg of vitamin E daily can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, blurred vision, excessive menstruation or amenorrhea, and even thrombophlebitis and pulmonary embolism due to platelet aggregation.

5. Take more than 800 mg of vitamin E daily for 3 consecutive weeks. Creatinuria and increased serum creatine kinase activity will occur, which can aggravate diseases such as hypertension, angina pectoris, and diabetes.

6. Reproductive dysfunction may occur when taking 2000-12000 mg of vitamin E daily.

It can be seen from this that although vitamin E is one of the essential nutrients for sustaining life, long-term use still needs to be under the guidance of a doctor or nutritionist to minimize toxic side effects.