The urge to move your legs at night could be a sign of a vitamin D deficiency.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – When levels vitamin D down in the body, strange things can happen to your body. Muscle cramps, hair loss, and skin problems are signs of a vitamin D deficiency. Furthermore, research shows this. restless legs syndrome alias restless legs syndrome (RLS) can also be a symptom.
Quoted from the page To express, Sunday (9/10/2022), RLS is a great push to move the legs that tend to attack at night. According to the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, this condition can trigger a feeling as if something terrible is crawling or crawling on the legs, calves and thighs.
RLS can sometimes be caused by iron deficiency or kidney failure. However, scientists also believe it could be a sign of vitamin D deficiency.
According to researchers from the University of Missouri, the reason is unknown Vitamin D deficiency can cause RLS. However, research has found a link between the two.
A study published in Journal of clinical sleep medicine in 2018 observed 201 people, including 78 patients with RLS and 123 people without RLS. Both groups measured their vitamin D levels.
People with lower levels of vitamin D were found to be more at risk of developing RLS. The researchers concluded that vitamin D was significantly associated with RLS.
Education peer-review previously, published in PubMed, found that vitamin D supplements could improve symptoms of restless legs syndrome. “This suggests a relationship between the two,” the researchers said.
Scientists administered supplements to 12 people with vitamin D deficiency and restless legs syndrome. After their administration, the severity of their RLS symptoms improved significantly.
Author Siraj Wali and colleagues from the Sleep Medicine Research Center in Saudi Arabia concluded that this study shows that vitamin D supplementation reduces the severity of RLS symptoms and indicates that vitamin D deficiency may be associated. to the RLS.
