7. Slowly healing wounds
Not only does vitamin C maintain healthy skin, but it’s also essential for the immune response, which works to treat wounds and combat infection. By promoting collagen synthesis, vitamin C helps to form scar tissue over wounds. When your body doesn’t have enough vitamin C it needs, it starts producing less collagen.
If collagen formation is delayed, then your body’s own tool for healing itself stops functioning properly.
According to several medical studies, people with chronic and non-healing lower leg ulcers are more likely to have a vitamin C deficiency than people who do not have chronic leg ulcers. Severe vitamin C deficiency, also known as scurvy, can trigger old wounds to return anytime, increasing the risk of infection.
Long story short, your body needs vitamin C to heal wounds and minimize scar formation. Take note that slow wound healing is a symptom that generally shows after many months of vitamin C deficiency.
