Mucus membranes, Muscles

Excesses Attributed to Certain Disorders

Mucus Membranes

General

  • Dryness high Vitamin A

Oral mucosa

Aphthous stomatitis  (canker sores; ulcerative inflammation of the mucous membranes)

  • low Folic Acid
  • low Niacin
  • low Vitamin B12 (early)

Burning & soreness

  • high Iodine
  • low Riboflavin with hyperemia and edema of the pharyngeal nucos membranes
  • low Vitamin B12 (early)
  • low Vitamin D

Dryness

  • high Magnesium
  • high s-Adenosyl-methionine (SAMe)

Dryness & redness

  • low Biotin (rare)
  • low Niacin (pellagra) – also smooth with numerous, sometimes large, aphthous lesions

Stomatitis

  • low Folic Acid
  • low Vitamin B6
    low Vitamin B12 (early)

Muscles (see also Neuropsychiatry).

Atrophy

  • low Thiamine

Fasciculations

  • low Magnesium

Hypotonia

  • low Copper

  • low Vitamin D

Myalgia (muscle pain) -see also peripheral neuropathy and Neuropsychiatry

  • low Biotin (rare)

  • low Copper

  • low Magnesium

  • low Selenium

  • high Vitamin A

Myopathy

  • low Magnesium

  • low Phosphate

  • low Vitamin E

Myositis

  • low Selenium

Spasms

  • low Calcium

  • low Chloride

  • low Magnesium

  • low Pantothenic Acid

  • low Sodium

Stiffness

  • high Vitamin A

Tenderness - see also peripheral neuropathy

  • low Thiamine (beriberi) – (calf muscles)

  • low Vitamin D (calf muscles)

Tremors

  • low Magnesium (coarse)

  • high Thiamine

Twitches

  • low Magnesium

Wasting  -see also peripheral neuropathy

  • low Magnesium

  • low Protein-Calorie

Weakness -see also peripheral neuropathy and Weakness under Neuropsychiatry

References

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