What are calcium deposits?

Except bones and teeth, did you know that calcium is important to other function of human body too? Apart of 99% of calcium intake goes to bones and teeth, there is 1% of calcium goes into soft tissues in your body. This 1% of calcium intake helps to support muscle and blood vessel contractions, hormones, nerve signals, etc. For most of people, especially for older people and pregnant women, 1000mg of daily calcium intake is recommended.

Even though calcium is essential to the health of our bones and soft tissues, when they build up in our body, contributing to such as hard deposits, bone spurs, and the hardening of plaque in blood vessels, especially if there are deficiencies of critical vitamins like D and K.

Calcium deposits are accumulations

Calcium deposits are accumulations of calcium; it can start up in any part of body, in small part of bone and soft tissue. They start from soft but harden in time. Normally they don’t cause problem unless they increase in size or become inflamed. The matter commonly prevalent in the shoulders, and in many cases, calcium deposits do not require any medical attention, and oftentimes they cure themselves by being absorbed back into the body. Before they dry up and harden, they stay in soft tissue as like consistence of toothpaste, after a while they will become feels like a chalk, this is when you start feeling it and experience some pain. 112 eventually calcium deposits will become like heavy stone and make people suffer from pain.

What causes calcium deposits?

Till today, the exact cause of calcium deposits have not found yet. According to research, most victims are aging people and women are usually more than man. 35 to 65 are most affected, in regards of age. Some doctor claims that calcium deposits are cause of calcium and mineral intake from food.

Another theory is Vitamin D Toxicity can have calcium deposits appearing.

What’s the effect of calcium deposits?

Calcium deposits are not very harmful to human body but the pain limits movement. And even small amount of calcium deposits still might cause pain because of inflammation, when the calcium salt leaks from a cut to the soft tissue covered in calcium. Sometimes it can result in damage the tendon’s rotator cuff, when the deposit is on the shoulder. However, most of the time they only remain in the exterior part of the rotator cuff tendon.

Is there treatments?

If there is only minor pain, you can use an ice pack, and rest the part of the body from any movement, some oral anti inflammatory medications can help too. A cortisone injection directly into the area of the inflammation may give relief within a few hours. If the pain gets worse and you experience it 2-3 times in a row, it may means the calcium deposits gets bigger and infected, then you will need an arthroscopic surgery to see if you need to have it removed.

Will it return after have it removed?

It will not be return in the same area once you have it removed. For more Calcium deposits, read other page.