Vitamin B5 Pantothenic Acid Deficiency & Symptoms
For humans, there are no proven symptoms that exist for pantothenic acid deficiency. The rare Vitamin B5 deficient symptoms only occur on animals / pets. Dogs with pantothenic acid deficiency developed low blood glucose, rapid breathing and heart rates, and convulsions. Chickens developed skin irritation, feather abnormalities, and spinal nerve damage associated with the degeneration of the myelin sheath.
However, lack of one B vitamin usually means lack of other B nutrients. Pantothenic acid is usually given with other B vitamins. Once again, take a B-complex multi-vitamin supplement is strongly recommended for everyone.
Who are likely to be deficient in Pantothenic Acid?
Deficiency in Pantothenic Acid is very rare today. Most of the foods we intake daily have some forms of Pantothenic Acid in it. However, the following food sources contains the richest amount of vitamin B5:
Blue Cheese, Chicken, Eggs, Liver, Lobster, Milk, Oranges, Peanuts, Soybeans, Sunflower Seeds and Whole-grain Products.
Although most people do get enough Pantothenic Acid from their daily diet, there are still groups of people who may have lower levels of pantothenic acid levels:
- Women that are pregnant or breastfeeding
- People more than 55 years of age with general vitamin B deficiencies
- People with inadequate caloric or nutritional dietary intake
- People with increased nutritional requirements, mostly are athletes and people who participate in vigorous physical activities
- People with a chronic wasting illness, such as malignancies, pancreatic insufficiency, cirrhosis of the liver, spruce etc...
- People under stress for a long time
- People who has recently undergone surgery
Note: studies have indicated that second hand smokers are likely to be deficient in all vitamins especially Vitamin C, B-complex Vitamins and Vitamin E. It is recommended for people in the above categories to take a B-complex multi-vitamin package instead of Vitamin B5 Pantothenic Acid alone.
Vitamin B5 Pantothenic Acid RDA
The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine felt the existing scientific evidence was insufficient to calculate an RDA for pantothenic acid, so they set an adequate intake level (AI). The AI for pantothenic acid was based on estimated dietary intakes in healthy population groups.
Adequate Intake for dietary vitamin B5 are listed below.
Children and Youth:
Infants 0-6 months: 1.7 mg/day
Infants 7-12 months: 1.8 mg/day
Children 1-3 years: 2 mg/day
Children 4-8 years: 3 mg/day
Children 9-13 years: 4 mg/day
Adolescents 14-18 years: 5 mg/day (female) 5 mg/day (male)
Adults:
Adults 19 years and older: 5 mg/day (female) 5 mg/day (male)
Pregnancy all ages: 6 mg/day
Breastfeeding all ages: 7 mg/day
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