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The vitamin deficiency disease scurvy is also known as sailor's disease why and what vitamin causes it.?
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∙ 15y ago
Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C. found in cabbages and fresh citrus fruit such as lemons and limes.
It was prevalent among sailors in the days of sailing ships because they did not get to eat fresh produce (containing vitamin C) for long periods of time.
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What disease may be caused by a vitamin c deficiency?
A disease known as scurvy is caused by a vitamin c deficiency
What are the diseases related to nutritional and diet causes?
Scurvy - Vitamin C deficiency. Most common in sailors in the 18th century.
Deficiency of Vitamin A causes?
defiency of vitamin a causes blindness.
Why is scurvy caused?
Prolonged deficiency of vitamin c causes scurvy.
Which vitamin deficiency causes massive hemorrhaging in infants?
The deficiency of Vitamin K or menaquinone.
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.
Is obesity a deficiency disease?
No obesity causes deficiency disease x
Vitamin b2 deficiency disease?
A deficiency of Vitamin B2 can cause diabetes, intestinal disease, and Fibromyalgia.
Deficiency of which vitamin caused xerophthalmia?
deficiency of vitamin A causes xerophthalmia but there can be other causes also. In this defect eye fails to produce tears because of dryness off cornea
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
What happens if you have deficiency amount of vitamins?
depends what vitamin you have a deficiency in. For example a deficiency in vitamin A can cause severe visual impairment and blindness, and significantly increases the risk of severe illness, and even death, from such common childhood infections as diarrhoeal disease and measles.A deficiency in Vitamin E deficiency causes the central nervous system and may result in progressive neuromuscular disease characterized by loss of reflexes, muscle weakness, loss of balance and impaired ability to coordinate voluntary movements
What vitamin deficiency causes joint pain and lock-up?
Vitamin D
