Vitamins and vitamin deficiency

Question 1

What vitamin are called retinoids?

Answer 1

Vitamin A

Question 2

What does vitamin A deficiency cause?

Answer 2

Night blindness

Question 3

Which vitamin is called Thiamine?

Answer 3

Vitamine B1

Question 4

What does vitamin B1 deficiency cause?

Answer 4

Beri beri.

Question 5

What is Beri beri?

Answer 5

• Vague onset with fatigue. High output cardiac failure should prompt vit B1 tests.
• polyneuropathy,
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
• heart failure

Question 6

What does vitamin B1 do?

Answer 6

Acts as a co-enzyme in carbohydrate metabolism

Question 7

What does Vit A do?

Answer 7

• Vitamin A is important for normal vision
• the immune system,
• reproduction.

Question 8

Which vitamin is called Niacin?

Answer 8

Vit. B3

Question 9

What does vitamin B3 deficiency cause?

Answer 9

• Pellagra

* inflamed skin, diarrhea, dementia, and sores in the mouth

Question 10

What does Niacin do?

Answer 10

• Helps convert carbohydrates
• Helps maintain healthy skin, hair and eyes
• Helps maintain the nervous system
• Helps produce sex hormones

Question 11

Which vitamin is Pyridoxine known as?

Answer 11

Vitamin B6

Question 12

What does vitamin B6 deficiency cause?

Answer 12

Anaemia, irritability, seizures

Question 13

Which vitamin is Biotin known as?

Answer 13

Vitamin B7

Question 14

What does vitamin B7 deficiency cause?

Answer 14

Dermatitis, seborrhoea (excessively oily skin)

Question 15

Which vitamin is Folic acid known as?

Answer 15

Vitamin B9

Question 16

What does vitamin B9 deficiency cause?

Answer 16

• Megaloblastic anaemia

* Deficiency during pregnancy - neural tube defects

Question 17

Which vitamin is Ascorbic acid known as?

Answer 17

Vitamin c

Question 18

What does vitamin C deficiency cause?

Answer 18

• Scurvy → gingivitis, bleeding

Question 19

Which vitamins are Ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol known as?

Answer 19

Vitamin D

Question 20

What does Vitamin D deficiency cause?

Answer 20

• Rickets

* Osteomalacia

Question 21

Which vitamins are Tocopherol and tocotrienol known as?

Answer 21

Vitamine E

Question 22

What does Vitamin E deficiency cause?

Answer 22

• Mild haemolytic anaemia in newborn infants
• Ataxia
• Peripheral neuropathy

Question 23

Which vitamin is Naphthoquinone known as?

Answer 23

Vitamin K

Question 24

What does Vitamin K deficiency cause?

Answer 24

• Haemorrhagic disease of the newborn,

* Bleeding diathesis