Vitamins

Question 1

A

Answer 1

Deficiency = Colour blindess 
Excess = Exfoliation, hepatitis

Question 2

D

Answer 2

Deficiency = Osteomalacia/rickets 
Excess = Hypercalcaemia

Question 3

E - tocopherol

Answer 3

Deficiency = Anaemia/neuropathy

Question 4

K - phytomenadione

Answer 4

Deficiency = defective clotting

Measure PTT

Question 5

B1 - thiamine

Answer 5

Deficiency = Wernicke’s
Beri-Beri (wet = fast HF, SOB, oedema; dry = numbness of hands and feet, confusion, trouble moving legs, pain)
Neuropathy
Measure RBC transketolase

Question 6

B2 - riboflavin

Answer 6

Deficiency = glossitis

Measure RBC glutathione reductase

Question 7

B6 - pyridoxine

Answer 7

Defieicny = dermatitis/anaemia
Excess = neuropathy
Measure RBC AST activation

Question 8

B12 - cobalamin

Answer 8

Deficiency = pernicious aneamia

Question 9

C - ascorbbate

Answer 9

Deficiency = scurvy 
Excess = renal stones

Question 10

Folate

Answer 10

Deficiency = megaloblastic anaemia

NT defect

Question 11

B3 - Niacin

Answer 11

Deficiency = Pellagra
Dementia
Diarrhoea
Dermatitis - distinctive neck rash

Question 12

Iodine deficiency

Answer 12

Deficiency - goitre, hypothryoid

Question 13

Zinc deficiency

Answer 13

Dermatitis

Question 14

Copper deficiency

Answer 14

Anaemia

Question 15

Fluoride

Answer 15

Deficiency = dental caries 
Excess = flurosis