Nutrition: Vitamin/mineral Deficiencies and Toxicities

Question 1

What is a consequence of a Vitamin A deficiency?

Answer 1

Night blindness

Question 2

What are the consequences of Vitamin A toxicity?

Answer 2

Loss of appetite, bone pain, hypercalemia

Question 3

What are the consequences of a Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency?

Answer 3

Wernicke’s encephalopathy with neurodegeneration

Question 4

What are the consequences of a Vitamin B1 (thiamine) toxicity?

Answer 4

toxicity is rare

Question 5

What are the consequences of a Vitamin B3 deficiency?

Answer 5

Pellagra with 4 D’s: Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Dementia, and Death

Question 6

What are the consequences of a Vitamin B3 toxicity?

Answer 6

Abnormal glucose metabolism, flushing, nausea, and vomiting

Question 7

What are the consequences for a B12 deficiency?

Answer 7

Pernicious anemia, psychiatric disorders

Question 8

Are there any toxicity consequences for B12?

Answer 8

Toxicity unknown

Question 9

What is a consequence of a biotin deficiency?

Answer 9

Hair loss

Question 10

Are there any toxicity consequences for Biotin?

Answer 10

Toxicity unknown

Question 11

What are the consequences for a Vitamin C deficiency?

Answer 11

Bleeding tendency, scurvy

Question 12

What are the consequences for a Vitamin C toxicity?

Answer 12

Inhibits zinc absorption, urinary stones, diarrhea

Question 13

What are the consequences for a Vitamin D Deficiency?

Answer 13

rickets, bone disease, muscle pain, falls

Question 14

What are the consequences for a Vitamin D Toxicity?

Answer 14

Hypercalcemia, renal stones, calcification of soft tissues

Question 15

What are the consequences of a copper deficiency?

Answer 15

Anemia, skin lesions, neurological disease, bone fragility

Question 16

What are the consequences of a copper toxicity?

Answer 16

Found in Wilson’s disease; neuron and liver cell damage

Question 17

What are the consequences of a magnesium deficiency?

Answer 17

Hypertension, dysrhythmia, preeclampisa

Question 18

What are the consequences of a magnesium toxicity?

Answer 18

Increased calcium excretion

Question 19

What are the consequences of an iron deficiency?

Answer 19

Anemia, fatigue, poor growth

Question 20

What are the consequences of iron toxicity?

Answer 20

Hemochromatosis (genetic) with liver, pancreatic, and cardiac damage

Question 21

What are the consequences of Zinc deficiences?

Answer 21

Dermatitis, impaired taste, impaired growth, low level of alkaline phosphatase enzyme

Question 22

What are the consequences of a Zinc toxicity?

Answer 22

Copper deficiency, renal damage, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea