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Does lack of Vitamin A cause blindness?

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Does a lack of vitamin C cause night blindness?

No, a lack of vitamin C does not cause night blindness, but it can cause scurvy. A lack of vitamin A causes night blindness.


What happens to a person who does not have sufficient vitamin A and vitamin C?

Scurvy. Vitamin C is in fruit, and a lack of fruity-foods will lead to Scurvy.


Disease caused due to lack of vitamin A?

night blindness is cuased due to the lack of vitamin eye .


If you suffer night blindness you may lack what vitamin which is stored in the liver?

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Lack of vitamin C will give you scurvy what will lack of vitamin A give you?

Night Blindness. Vitamin A is important in helping your eyes adjust to the dark.


What disease do you get from lack of vitamin A?

Night blindness and dryness of skin


Which disease is cause by lack ofvitamin A?

In early childhood, blindness. Later on, various problems with immune system, cancer, etc. Most commonly, night blindness if the person isn't completely blind from a lack of Vitamin A in youth.


What are the later symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis?

Jaundice from the accumulation of bile and nutritional deficiencies-bruising from lack of vitamin K, bone pain from lack of vitamin D, night blindness from lack of vitamin A, and skin rashes, lack of vitamin E.


What is the kind of blindness that Vitamin A deficiency causes?

The first sign of Vitamin A deficiency is night blindness. Severe Vitamin A deficiency can cause Xerophthalmia (dry eye in which the eyes cannot produce tears) and complete blindness.


What do you get from lack of vitamin a?

Night blindness, measles, slow bone development, Xerophthalmia


What problem caused by Deficiency of vitamin A?

if you lack vitamin a you get night blindness


What is the cause of anemia night blindness and rickets?

Anaemia is a deficiency of iron, night blindness is a deficiency if vitamin A and rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D.