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What might happen to a person whose diet is deficient in vitamin A and vitamin D?
You get the symptoms and signs of vitamin A deficiency. Those are night blindness, Bitot's spots, keratomalacia and corneal ulcers and blindness. Your diet is usually deficient in vitamin D, unless you eat fish, specially fish liver. You get the vitamin D in presence of sunlight. Sub-clinical deficiency of vitamin D is very common, probably.
What is the word for not being able to see at night?
The word you are looking for is "nyctalopia" or night blindness. It is a condition where a person has difficulty seeing in low light or at night. This can be caused by various underlying conditions such as vitamin A deficiency or certain eye diseases.
What are the benefits of Calcium and Vitamin D?
Calcium and Vitamin D are essential for having healthy, strong bones. It is important to have enough Calcium and Vitamin D in a person's diet. Calcium also helps a person's blood to clot.
What does the c in vitamin c stand for?
The C in Vitamin C came from the name of the person who first discovered it: CharlieVitamin C is also known as L-ascorbic acid or L-ascorbate...The person responsibile for identifying vitamin C wasAlbert Szent-Györgyi, so vitamin C did not come from his name.
What happens to a person who does not have sufficient vitamin A and vitamin C?
Without sufficient vitamin A, a person may experience night blindness, impaired immune function, and skin issues. Inadequate vitamin C can lead to scurvy, characterized by weakness, anemia, gum disease, and skin problems. Both vitamins are essential for overall health and wellbeing.
Is beriberi a comunicable or non communicable disease?
It is a dietary deficiency disease. It happens when you do not eat the right foods. Not communicable.
Which treatments worked to prevent scurvy?
Anything with vitamin C. The English are known as limeys because they brought large amounts of limes on board their ships, these limes had a lot of vitamin C which prevents scurvy. BTW scurvy is a vitamin deficiency, so the best treatment for any vitamin deficiency is to give the person that vitamin.
What problem caused by Deficiency of vitamin A?
if you lack vitamin a you get night blindness
If a person refrain from ingesting any of the water soluble vitamins deficiency symptoms would appear last for?
Vitamin B12
What vitamin deficiency does a person have when having gray at an early age?
Graying at an early age may be caused by a deficiency of B vitamins, most notably B-5 and B-12.
What might happen to a person whose diet is deficient in vitamin A and vitamin D?
You get the symptoms and signs of vitamin A deficiency. Those are night blindness, Bitot's spots, keratomalacia and corneal ulcers and blindness. Your diet is usually deficient in vitamin D, unless you eat fish, specially fish liver. You get the vitamin D in presence of sunlight. Sub-clinical deficiency of vitamin D is very common, probably.
Can Vitamin C cause side effects?
Improve The first symptom that you would notice in a person with a vitamin C deficiency is bleeding gums. Lack of vitamin C causes a disease known as scurvy, which if it is not treated by vitamin C will become fatal. People cannot live without vitamin C in their diet.
What are the characteristics of a malnourished?
A malnourished person is usually very thin (although there are certainly cases of people who aren't thin, but still have nutritional deficiencies) and such a person may have any number of nutritional deficiency diseases. A person with a vitamin D deficiency can have a disease called rickets, which results in malformed bones. A vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, which has many symptoms including bleeding gums. Vitamin B deficiencies cause beri-beri. Iron deficiencies cause anemia. Iodine deficiencies cause goiter (enlarged thyroid gland) etc.
What does indicate the raised albumin?
Raised albumin levels usually indicate that a person is suffering from dehydration. It may also indicate a Vitamin A deficiency.
In a person who loses the ability to absorb vitamin B12 approximately what period of time could elapse before deficiency signs develop?
one month
How is rickets spread?
by not taking enough vitamin d as a person with rickets does
What are deficiency diseases it's answer?
'Deficiency diseases like goiter (hypthyroid), scurvy (lack of citrus intake), and beriberi (lack of vitamin B1) are all caused by some nutrient that is absent or very low in a person's diet.
