Vitamins Flashcards
What vitamin is found in a diet lacking fruits and green vegetables
Vitamin C
What vitamin deficiency can lead to scurvey
Vitamin C
What vitamin deficiency is ascorbic acid
Vitamin C
What are some signs and sx of vitamin C deficiency
Malaise, weakness, vascular fragility, recurrent hemmorages in gums skin and joints, impaired healing
What vitamin deficiency has hyperkeratosis, hemorrhage, and hematologic
Vitamin C
Name the deficiency: a pt comes to you with weakness, and feeling tired. She states that she has some red spots in her gums, and she has a wound on her leg that hasn’t been healing.
Vitamin C
What is the vitamin D deficiency called in children? What about adults?
Ricketts in children
Osteomalacia in adults
What is ricketts?
Vitamin D deficiency in children
Name the disorder: a child comes to you with his 3rd fracture of the year. When walking in you notice he has a bowing of his legs. He is also complaining of weakness
Vitamin D or rickets
Name the disorder : A 49 y/o male comes to you with diffuse muscle pain. He states that he has a hx of 4 fractures just this year and feels like he is getting weaker.
Vitamin D or osteomalcia
What is the treatment of a vitamin D deficiency ?
Ergocalciferol (Vitamin D)
What is the function of vitamin A
Vision, immune function, embryo development, hematopoiesis skin and cellular health
Name some sx of vitamin A deficiency
Visual changes, impaired immunity, squamous metaplasia, bitot spots, alopecia, xeropthalmia
What type of vision changes are seen in vitamin A deficiency
Night blindness
What are bitot spots and what deficiency are they seen in
White spots on conjuntivia seen in vitamin A deficiency
What vitamin is known for its thiamine deficiency
Vitamin B1
What vitamin is known for riboflavin deficiency
Vitamin B2
What vitamin is known as niacin/nicotine acid
Vitamin B3
What vitamin is known for Pyridoxine deficiency
Vitamin B6
What vitamin is known for a cobalamine deficiency
Vitamin B 12
What is the most common cause of a vitamin B1 deficiency
ETOH
What are the 3 types of thiamine deficiency
Beriberi
Wenicke’s encephalopathy
Korsakoff’s dementia
What are some sx of dry beriberi
Vitamin B1 deficiency
Parasthesias, demyelination, peripheral neuropathy, muscle cramps and wasting
What are some sx of wet beriberi
High output failure, dilated cardiomyopathy edema
Name the deficiency: A pt comes to you with edema and high output failure, and a dilated cardiomyopathy
Wet beriberi with a vitamin B1 deficiency
Name the Vitamin B1 deficiency : a pt comes to you with paralysis of the eyes, difficultly walking, and global confusion
Wernicke’s encephalopathy
Name the Vitamin B1 deficiency : memory loss, confabulation, and its irreversible
Korsakoff’s dementia
Name the deficiency: a pt comes to you with a pink tongue, sores around the mouth, photophobia and lesions on their genitals
Riboflavin or B2 deficiency
What are the sx of a B2 deficiency
Oral-ocular-genital syndrome
Oral: lesions on mouth, magenta tongue, angular chelates
Ocular: photophobia, corneal lesions,
Genital: scrotal dermatitis
What is another name for a B2 deficiency
Riboflavin
Name the deficiency: a pt comes to you with sx of diarrhea, memory loss, and a rash on their body
Niacin/nicotine acid, B3 deficiency
Name another term for a B3 deficiency
Niacin/nicotinic acid
Name some common sx of a B3 deficiency
Diarrhea, dementia, and dermatitis
What vitamin deficiency can be due to diets high in corn or lack tryptophan
Niacin/nicotinic acid (B3) deficiency
What deficiency can be due to alcoholism, isoniazid, and oral contraceptives
Pyridoxine (B6) deficiency
What is another name for a B6 deficiency
Pyridoxine
Name some sx of a B6 deficiency
Peripheral neuropathy, flaky skin, headache, anemia, sore tongue, seizures
Name the deficiency: A pt comes to you with tingling on his lower extremities and a decreased sensation, he states that he feels his skin is flaking off, and has had a HA for a couple days
Pyridoxine (B6) deficiency
What is another name for a B12 deficiency
Cobalimine deficiency
What are some sx of a B12 deficiency
Neuro sx (parastheisis, gait, abnormal memory loss, dementia), GI sx (anorexia and diarrhea) Macrocytic anemia with hypersegmented neutrophils
Name the disorder: a pt comes to you with memory loss, tingling in his hands, diarrhea, and not eating
B 12
What disorder has macrocytic anemia with hypersegmented neutrophils
B12 or Cobalamine
Name a type of B12 deficiency
Pernicious anemia
Name the disorder: A pt comes to you with autoimmune destruction of gastric parietal cells that secrete intrinsic factor
Pernicious anemia (vitamin B12)
How do you dx pernicious anemia ?
Schilling test or AB test
How do you treat vitamin B12 deficiency
IM or oral B12
What are some ppl who may have a vitamin B 12 deficiency
Strict vegans, ETOH, malabsorption, atrophic gastritis
