{"id":27522,"date":"2024-10-25T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27522"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:50:09","slug":"scurvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/scurvy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Scurvy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Scurvy:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a disease caused by a significant <strong>lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid)<\/strong> in your diet.<\/li>\n<li>Scurvy has been known since ancient Greek and Egyptian times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Humans cannot synthesize vitamin C<\/strong>. It needs to come from external food sources, especially fruits and vegetables or fortified foods.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, scurvy is caused by <strong>not eating enough fresh fruits and vegetables.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Also, <strong>cooking destroys some of the vitamin C<\/strong> found in food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It can include anemia, exhaustion, <strong>spontaneous bleeding<\/strong>, limb pain, swelling, and sometimes <strong>ulceration of the gums<\/strong> and <strong>loss of teeth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can be <strong>fatal if left untreated.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment<\/strong>: It is treatable with <strong>oral or intravenous vitamin C supplements<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Importance of Vitamin C:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s responsible for the development, <strong>growth, and healing of<\/strong> your <strong>skin, bones,<\/strong> and <strong>connective tissue<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, you need vitamin C for your <strong>blood vessels to function properly<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin C helps <strong>maintain your teeth and gums.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>helps<\/strong> your <strong>body absorb iron,<\/strong> which it needs to make red blood cells.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin C also <strong>helps heal burns<\/strong> and other <strong>wounds<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin C is an <strong>antioxidant<\/strong>, meaning it <strong>protects your cells against<\/strong> damage from <strong>free radicals.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Free radicals are byproducts of normal cell activity which participate in chemical reactions within cells. Some of these reactions can cause damage over your lifetime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What are Vitamins?<\/h3>\n<p>Vitamins are organic compounds that people need in small quantities. Each has a different role in maintaining health and bodily function. Each organism has different vitamin requirements. For example, humans need to get vitamin C from their diets \u2014 while dogs can produce all the vitamin C that they need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/feature\/15th-century-disease-scurvy-is-making-a-comeback-say-canadian-doctors-6865021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15th Century Disease &#8216;Scurvy&#8217; Is Making A Comeback, Say Canadian Doctors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scurvy is a disease caused by a significant lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in your diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}