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Vitamin A deficiency can be prevented or treated by taking vitamin supplements or by getting injections of the vitamin.
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How is vitamin B6 deficiency treated?
Vitamin B6 deficiency can be prevented or treated with consumption of the recommended dietary allowance, as supplied by food or by vitamin supplements.
How is vitamin K deficiency treated?
Vitamin K deficiency in newborn infants is treated and prevented with a single injection of phylloquinone (5 mg).
Treatment for ricketts?
Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, so it would be treated by adding vitamin D to the diet.
Can people live without vitamin C?
People can not live without vitamin C. They will develop scurvy, a disease caused by a vitamin C deficiency. If not treated through adding vitamin C to the diet, scurvy is ultimately fatal.
What does vitamin K deficiency occur?
Newborns are especially prone to vitamin K deficiency
Is vitamin K deficiency common in adults?
Vitamin K deficiency in adults is rare
Which vitamin deficiency causes massive hemorrhaging in infants?
The deficiency of Vitamin K or menaquinone.
What is the prognosis for vitamin B6 deficiency?
The prognosis for correcting vitamin B6 deficiency is excellent
List of deficiency diseases and their symptoms?
Rickets in children and osteomalacia are examples of deficiency diseases due to vitamin deficiency. Scurvy is an example of vitamin C deficiency. Beriberi is an example of vitamin B one deficiency. (Both, wet beriberi and dry beriberi.) Pellagra is an example of Niacin deficiency. Anemia is caused by deficiency of vitamin B 12 and Folic acid. Burning feet syndrome is caused by the deficiency of Pantothenic acid. Night blindness is caused by the deficiency of vitamin A. Kwashiorkor and marasmus are caused by deficiency of proteins and food, respectively. Poverty is caused by deficiency of kindness. Inequality is caused by deficiency of compassion.
What does vitamin A deficiency occur?
Vitamin A deficiency occurs with the chronic consumption of diets that are deficient in both vitamin A and beta-carotene.
Can you have both iron-deficiency anemia and vitamin B12 anemia?
i guess so but then it would be called deficiency anemia because you are lacking nutrition
Why is scurvy caused?
Prolonged deficiency of vitamin c causes scurvy.
