Nutritional Disorders

Question 1

Water Soluble Vitamins

Answer 1

B vitamins and Vitamin C

Question 2

Fat-soluble vitamins

Answer 2

Vitamins A, D, E, K

Question 3

B1

Answer 3

Thiamine

Question 4

B2

Answer 4

Riboflavin

Question 5

B3

Answer 5

Niacin

Question 6

B6

Answer 6

Pyridoxine

Question 7

B12

Answer 7

Cyancobalamin

Question 8

Vitamin C

Answer 8

Ascorbic Acid

Question 9

Refined grains such as rice may lose this vitamin

Answer 9

B1 Thiamine

Question 10

Thiamine

Answer 10

B1

Question 11

Alcoholic are likely to be deficient in this vitamin

Answer 11

B1 Thiamine

Question 12

This vitamin maintains neural membranes and nerve conduction, especially PERIPHERAL NERVES

Answer 12

B1 Thiamine

Question 13

Who discovered B1 deficiency?

Answer 13

Christiaan Eijkman

Question 14

Vitamin B1 deficiency leads to a sever nervous system disorder

Answer 14

Beriberi

Question 15

3 types of Beriberi

Answer 15

1. Dry
2. Wet
3. Wernicke Encephalopathy & Korsakoff’s Psychosis

Question 16

Peripheral polyneuoropathy may be cause by this

Answer 16

DRY Beriberi deficiency (B1)

*Affects the NERVOUS SYSTEM

Question 17

Dry Beriberi may manifest…

Answer 17

Wrist drop, foot drop, toe drop

Question 18

Symptoms of Wet Beriberi

Answer 18

Enlarged heart
Flabby myocardium
Peripheral vasodilation
Cardiac failure
Putting edema
Dual was, orthopenia

Question 19

Symptoms of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy

Answer 19

Global confusion
Apathy
Listlessness
Disorientation
Opthalmoplegia

Question 20

Korsakoff’s psychosis

Answer 20

1. Amnesia is BOTH
   - Retrograde
   - Anterograde
2. Inability to acquire new info!
3. Confabulation- memory disturbance, create stories, misinterpret memories

Question 21

Mammillary bodies in the brain are the result of what vitamin deficiency?

Answer 21

Vitamin B1…. Wernicke’s Encephalopathy and Korsakoff’s Psychosis

Question 22

Riboflavin

Answer 22

B2

Question 23

Deficiency usually seen with

• cheilosis (Chelitis)
• glossitis (tongue- red, swollen)
• superficial keratitis (cornea hardening)
• dermatitis

Answer 23

Ariboflavinosis

Question 24

Cornea hardening that may occur in ariboflavinosis

Answer 24

Superficial Interstitial Keratitis

Question 25

Which Beriberi involves the nervous system?

Answer 25

⚡️Dry Beriberi- nervous system
💗 Wet Beriberi- heart

🧠 Wernicke’s and Korsakoff’s- mammillary bodies in brain

Question 26

Does vitamin B2 affect the nervous system?

Answer 26

NO!

B2 does not affect the nervous system

Question 27

Niacin

Answer 27

B3
Nicotine’s acid
Nicotinamide

Question 28

How is niacin produced?

Answer 28

Produced via gut flora from TRYPTOPHAN

Question 29

Nick Dates Pellegra 4 times!!!!

Answer 29

Niacin-
4 D’s- PELLEGRA
1. diarrhea
2. dermatitis 
3. dementia
4. death! 💀

Question 30

Casal’s necklace associated with what vitamin deficiency?

Answer 30

Niacin deficiency called Pellegra/ dermatitis

Question 31

Pyridoxine

Answer 31

Vitamin B6

Question 32

What vitamin was highlighted in class is THERMOLABILE and may be destroyed by just a small amount of heat?

Answer 32

B6, pyridoxine

Question 33

ESTROGENS and IONIAZID and D-PENICILLAMINE competes with which vitamin?

Answer 33

B6, pyridoxine

Question 34

Organic core of urinary tract stones forms a clump of epithelial cells from inside bladder and grows larger and larger to form stones and sloughs epithelial cells!!!!!

Answer 34

NIDUS

Question 35

Sloughing of epithelial cells in Vitamin B6 deficiency may be caused by…

Answer 35

NIDUS

Seborrheic dermatitis

Question 36

Symptom is of B6 deficiency

Answer 36

Cheilosis/chilitis
Glossitis
Peripheral polyneuropathy
Convulsions in babies
Sloughing of epithelial cells (NIDUS, seborrheic dermatitis)