Week 5 Holistic Flashcards
Water Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- dry skin, hair, mucous membranes
- poor skin turgor
- Increased heart rate and respiration
- orthostatic hypotension
- Confusion
- Sunken Eyeballs
Protein Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Dull Dry hair
- pallor
- Peripheral Edema
- Pressure ulcers, especially multiple or repeated ulceration
Carbohydrates Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Decline in body weight
- Pallor
- Extremely poor definition
Fats Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Emaciated
- Epidermal flaking
- Fissuring of the skin
- Large flakes of dandruff
Vitamin A Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Night Blindness
- Difficulty adapting to changes in light intensity
- Scleral changes and dry eyes
-Gingivitis
-Pigment changes
-Dry skin
Vitamin K Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Petechiae
- Wound bleeds readily
Vitamin C Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Swollen gums that bleed readily
- Transparent skin quality
- Weakness
- Delayed wound healing
Vitamin B complex Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Pallor
- pale eye membranes
- Hyperpigmentation
- Redness or swelling of the mouth
- Mouth sores
- Purple discoloration of the tongue with loss of villi
- swollen gums that bleed readily
- confusion
- muscle cramps
- Anemia
Vitamin E Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
NA
Zinc Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- decreased sense of taste
- dull, dry, or thinning hair
- Seborrhea like dryness and redness of the face
Iron Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Pallor
- Yellow discoloration of the skin
- Soft spoon shaped nails
- easily fatigued
- dyspnea
- anemia
Copper Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Thinning hair
- May have pigmentation changes
Magnesium Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Dehydration
- Neuronal Hyperexcitability
- confusion
Calcium Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Acute neuromuscular hyperexcitability; dysrhythmias
- Skeletal deformities such as kyphoscoliosis
- Idiopathic and compression fractures
- Bone pain
- Dry scaling skin and hair
- Brittle nails
Phosphorus Deficiencies/Clinical Manifestations
- Skeletal Deformities
- Idiopathic fractures
- Bone pain