Fat Soluble

Question 1

Vitamin A major function

Answer 1

• Retionol: reproduction
• Retonic acid: Growth and Cell Maturation, bone formation, gene expression
• Retinal: night and colour vision

Question 2

Vitamin A deficiency

Answer 2

• night blindness
• decreased mucus production
• bacterial invasion
• blindness ( Xeropthalmia)

Question 3

Vitamin A toxicity

Answer 3

• Acute: headache, blurred vision, poor muscle contraction
• Chronic: bone/ muscle pain, loss of appetite, hair loss, permanent damage to liver, brain and eyes
• Teratogenic: birth defects
• Hypercartenamia: high amounts of carotenoids in the blood stream

Question 4

Vitamin A source

Answer 4

• liver
• fish oil
• eggs

Question 5

Vitamin D functions

Answer 5

• increase calcium absorption
• motabilisation of calcium from bones
• reduce calcium exertion

Question 6

Vitamin D Deficinies

Answer 6

1) Ricketts in children
- low vitamin D
- bone bow under pressure
- seen in cystic Fibrosis

2) Osteomalacia
- soft bone
- less obvious symptoms

Question 7

Vitamin d toxicity

Answer 7

• calcium deposit is in kidneys

- mental retardation

Question 8

Vitamin D source

Answer 8

• oily fish
• egg yolk
• live

Question 9

Vitamin E function

Answer 9

• antidoxant

Question 10

Vitamin E Deficiency

Answer 10

• nerve damage

Question 11

Vitamin E TOXICITY

Answer 11

Erythrocytes haemolysis in infants

Question 12

Vitamin E source

Answer 12

• veggies
• oils
• nuts

Question 13

Vitamin K function

Answer 13

• formation of prothrombin to increase blood clotting

- proteins and bone

Question 14

Vitmain k major deficiency

Answer 14

• haemorrhage disease in infants

Question 15

Vitmain K toxicity

Answer 15

None

Question 16

Vitamin K source

Answer 16

• Synthesis in the body

- green leave veggies