What diseases are caused by lack of vitamins and minerals?

Answer 1

It depends on the type of vitamin. For example, lack of vitamin A can cause night blindness, lack of vitamin B1 can cause beriberi, lack of B2 can cause Pellagra, lack of vitamin C can cause scurvy, and lack of vitamin D can cause rickets in children and osteoporosis.

Answer 2

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Vitamin A deficiency: night blindness and flaky skin.

B complex deficiency :

B1: Nerve problems (beriberi), heart muscle weakness, and edaema.

B2: Immflamation of eyes and skin.

B3: Pellagra: (Dermatitis and mental illness), nervous system disorders.

B5: Loss of co-ordination.

B6: Convulsions, irritability, and anaemia.

B9: Digestive disorders and anaemia.

B12: Pernicious anaemia.

Biotin (vitamin H): Muscle and mental issues.

Vitamin C: Scurvy and skin degeneration, and that of muscles, blood vessels, and bone.

Vitamin D: Rickets and skeletal deformity.

Vitamin E: Muscle and reproductive disorders.

Answer 3

Almost every disease can be caused by a lack of vitamins. If you take the right about of vitamins every day then you chances for getting a disease will be much less. The only way you could get another disease would be another thing that is not related to vitamins like cigarettes or something that is known to cause disease. But now just because you don't have all your vitamins does not mean that you are going to get a disease it just means your lacking in the vitamins and you need more. But to get a disease or something related to vitamins you will have to be deficient in vitamins for a long time and have another force that would help the bringing on of that disease.

Answer 4

Scurvy = lack of vitamin C...which is why British sailors are called "limeys." They discovered

by carrying limes on long ocean voyages, they did not get scurvy.

Answer 5

Scurvy is due to a deficiency in vitamin C.

Rickets is due to a deficiency in Vitamin D.

Pernicious anaemia can develop from a deficiency in Vitamin B12.

Answer 6

lack of vitamin C is scurvy: coughing up blood and other symptoms.

Answer 7

Lack of vitamin A causes Dry and scaly skin and night blindness.

Answer 8

Probably the most common vitamin deficiencies with severe symptoms covered in an educational setting are Scurvy (vitamin C), Beriberi (vitamin B1), and Rickets (vitamin D).