Vitamin A By Sam Willems. Function Vitamin A is needed for new cell growth, healthy skin, hair, and tissues, and vision in dim light.

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Vitamin A By Sam Willems

Function Vitamin A is needed for new cell growth, healthy skin, hair, and tissues, and vision in dim light.

Where to find t Vitamin A is found in dark green and yellow vegetables and yellow fruits, such as broccoli spinach, turnip greens, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, cantaloupe, and apricots, and in animal sources such as liver, milk, butter, cheese, and whole eggs.

Symptoms itchy tongue, white spots on the skin (result of melatonin disappearing from the skin), tingling pain in palms, eye twitch, shortness of breath (but without chest pain), nerve shock in the side of the body, difficulty maintaining balance, tingling in the thighs, migraine headache, memory loss (only with extreme deficiency), disorientation, irritability and personality changes, sores at the corners of the mouth (sometimes stretching over to the lip)

How to get rid of it Take vitamin a pills