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No specific disease is caused by Vitamin E deficiency, however such may cause a number of neurological conditions that are related to poor nerve conduction.

Symptoms of vitamin E deficiency can include:

  • dysathria - a motor-speech disorder
  • deep tendon reflex absense
  • vibratory sensation loss
  • proprioception - dysfunction of the awareness of the movement of one's body.
  • positive Babinski sign - a reflex that is present in infants but not in healthy adults.
  • anemia
  • retinopathy
  • impaired immune response
  • male-infertility
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vitamin A(retinol) is one among the 4 fat soluble vitamins. vitamin A is necessary for a variety of functions such as vision, proper growth and differentiation, reproduction and maintenance of epithelial cells.recommended dietary allowance(RDA) for adults is 1,000 retinol (3,500 IU) for men and 800 retinol (2,500 IU) for women. requirement increases in growing children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. deficiencythe deficiency symptoms of vitamin A are not immediate, since the hepatic stores can meet the body requirements for quite sometime(2-4 months). the deficiency manifestations are related to the eyes, skin and growth. deficiency disordersocular lesions (nightblindness, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, Bitot's spots, blindness).cutaneous lesions (xeroderma).other lesions ( squamous metaplasia of respiratory epithelium, urothelium and pancreatic ductal epithelium, subsequent anaplasia; retarded bone growth.)
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