Vitamin deficiencies (p. 343-347) Flashcards
Dry beri beri causes neuropathy
Wet causes high output cardiac failure
Deficiency?
Thiamine B1
Chelosis (mouth fissures) Deficiency?
B2 riboflavin
Pellagra (seen in 2 diseases) and 3DsDeficiency?
B3 Niacin and also Hartnups
Enteritis and dermatitis Deficiency?
B5 pantothenate
Neuropathy frequently caused by Isoniazid tx for TB Deficiency?
B6 pyridoxine
Pernicious anemia (lack of intrinstc factor) causes neropathy, megaloblastic anemia, glossitis
B12 cyanocobalamin
Dermatitis, enteritis (caused by consumption of raw eggs, due to avidin in raw eggs blocking ____ absorption.) Deficiency?
Biotin
Glucose intolerance (co factor for insulin) Deficiency?
Chromium
Leukopenia, bone demineralization. Deficiency?
Copper
NTD, menaloblastic anemia. Deficiency?
Folate
Plummer Vinson syndrome = esophageal webs, spoon nails. Deficiency? Excess causes Hemochromatosis
Iron
Myopathy (Keshan’s disease)
Selenium
Metaplasia of respiratory epithelia seen in CF due to no absorption of fat soluble vits. Sx xeropthalmia, night blindness, ance, Bitot’s spots respiratory infections
Vitamin A
Scurvey: poor healing, hypertrophic bleeding gums, easy bruising, deficient osteoid mimicking rickets. Deficiency?
Vitamin C
Rickets in kids, osteomalacia in adults. Deficiency?
Vitamin D
Fragile RBSc, sensory and motor peripheral neuropathy. Deficiency?
Vitamin E
Clotting deficiency
Vitamin K
Poor wound healing, decreased tastes and smell, alopecia, diarrhea, dermatitis (kind like pellagra) and depression
Zinc
Marasmus is defined as
total calorie malnutrition –> pts look well but are immuno suppressed. poor wound healing
Kwashiorkor is defined as..
edema/ascities, immunosuppression, poor wound healing.
Excess in ______ can cause pseudotumor cerebri. Also can be caused by consuming polar bear livers.
Vitamin A
