Deficiency of Vitamin C

What is it?

Vitamin C plays an important role in building bone and blood vessels and in wound healing. We get our vitamin C from the food we eat, it can be found in fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C deficiency is usually caused due to inadequate diet, and other physical conditions that may increase the need for dietary vitamin C such as an inflammatory disorder, surgery, burns, and protein deficiency. After months of vitamin C deficiency, Scurvy may develop.