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Vitamin deficciency

Condition Overview:

Your body needs vitamins — nutrients found in most foods — for many reasons, including producing healthy red blood cells. If your body is deficient in certain key vitamins, you can develop anemia — a condition in which your blood is low on healthy red blood cells.

Red blood cells carry oxygen from your lungs to all parts of your body. Without enough healthy red blood cells, your body can't get the oxygen it needs to feel energized. To produce red blood cells, your body needs iron and certain vitamins. Vitamin deficiencies also can lead to health problems other than anemia. Fortunately, you can usually correct vitamin deficiencies with supplements and dietary changes.

Anemia occurs in many types, but the main symptom of most anemias is fatigue. That's true for vitamin deficiency anemias, which can also result in:

Pale skin
Sore mouth and tongue
Shortness of breath
Loss of appetite
Diarrhea
Numbness or tingling in your hands and feet
 

In addition, vitamin B-12 deficiency can also result in:
Muscle weakness
Loss of balance
Yellow-blue colorblindness
Mental confusion or forgetfulness

Vitamin deficiencies usually develop slowly, over several months to years. Signs and symptoms may be subtle at first, but they increase as the deficiency worsens.