Vitamin Deficiency And School Age Children

Each vitamin has its own importance within the body and the health. Vitamins are helpful for the health and life of the body in several ways that include:

Infection is when foreign bodies such as bacteria, fungi and parasites invade your body these germs can cause disease and can even lead to amputation or even death in the host body. An infection may cause no symptoms or it may cause symptoms where you become really symptomatic and be hospitalized.

Vitamin B12 is Part of coenzymes used in new cell synthesis; helps to maintain nerve cells. Vitamin A Helps maintain good vision (necessary for night vision), resistance to infections, and supports growth and repair of body tissues. Vitamin D is part of the bone-making and bone maintenance team. Regulates absorption of calcium and phosphorus for bone health.

Infections can be spread through many things, these include; food borne infection, person to person, water borne infection, airborne infection, insect borne infection and fomites.

Common sources of infection include food, water, sick people (colds and flu or winter vomiting virus), animals and poor housing

Food borne illnesses such as salmonella or Ecoli as many people sharing the same foods and cause make everybody sick at the same time

Children who are in poor health are more prone to infection and illness as their immune system will be low and could be prone to scabies, stomach upsets, and any other child hood illness.

Vitamins are essential to your health. You only need very small quantities but if you

It often causes massive epidemics of which only the most resilient individuals survive. As natural selection weeds out the most susceptible hosts and the survivors repopulate, what was once a deadly disease becomes a routine childhood illness.

Children are susceptible to many more infections and diseases than adults. Adults have higher tolerance for diseases and even though they are still affected, they aren’t at as high of a risk for fatally. Medical treatment for such diseases or infections have come a long way since the 1700’s with the help of Edward Jenner. Two of the major deadly diseases in young children were the bubonic plague (also known as “black death”) and small pox. Some of the more common diseases/infections were the measles and influenza which are still affecting children in 2015 (Children and Youth in History).

adults babies and young kids are more likely to get in infected. Infections casued by

Infectious diseases are caused by agents that invade the host and produce an alteration in the state of health. These agents include viruses, true bacteria, protozoa like bacteria, fungus like bacteria, rickettsial organisms, chlamydial organisms, fungi, and yeast like fungi, mycoplasmal agents, and internal and external parasites. In addition to these causative agents, stress must be included as a cause or condition for the development of disease.

In M2 we have been set the question ‘What are vitamins – and who needs them’? Vitamins are essential substances that cannot be manufactured by the body. We need small amounts of vitamins for growth and development. Without vitamins the body cannot survive.

It is an infection caused by pathogens such as viruses, but more likely bacteria, especially when children are getting sick. In particular, the "responsible" is the number one affection Streptococcus, to be defeated, as we shall see in a moment, with the right

     Person to person transmission can occur through poor hygiene habits or by handling human waste. Daycares and nursing homes are at a high risk for person to person transmission because of the high risk of handling infected feces. Family outbreaks are common, as are outbreaks among children at nurseries (Donnelly & Stentiford, 1997).