Vitamin deficiencies (p. 343-347)

Question 1

Dry beri beri causes neuropathy
Wet causes high output cardiac failure
Deficiency?

Answer 1

Thiamine B1

Question 2

Chelosis (mouth fissures) Deficiency?

Answer 2

B2 riboflavin

Question 3

Pellagra (seen in 2 diseases) and 3DsDeficiency?

Answer 3

B3 Niacin and also Hartnups

Question 4

Enteritis and dermatitis Deficiency?

Answer 4

B5 pantothenate

Question 5

Neuropathy frequently caused by Isoniazid tx for TB Deficiency?

Answer 5

B6 pyridoxine

Question 6

Pernicious anemia (lack of intrinstc factor) causes neropathy, megaloblastic anemia, glossitis

Answer 6

B12 cyanocobalamin

Question 7

Dermatitis, enteritis (caused by consumption of raw eggs, due to avidin in raw eggs blocking ____ absorption.) Deficiency?

Answer 7

Biotin

Question 8

Glucose intolerance (co factor for insulin) Deficiency?

Answer 8

Chromium

Question 9

Leukopenia, bone demineralization. Deficiency?

Answer 9

Copper

Question 10

NTD, menaloblastic anemia. Deficiency?

Answer 10

Folate

Question 11

Plummer Vinson syndrome = esophageal webs, spoon nails. Deficiency? Excess causes Hemochromatosis

Answer 11

Iron

Question 12

Myopathy (Keshan’s disease)

Answer 12

Selenium

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Vitamin A

Question 14

Scurvey: poor healing, hypertrophic bleeding gums, easy bruising, deficient osteoid mimicking rickets. Deficiency?

Answer 14

Vitamin C

Question 15

Rickets in kids, osteomalacia in adults. Deficiency?

Answer 15

Vitamin D

Question 16

Fragile RBSc, sensory and motor peripheral neuropathy. Deficiency?

Answer 16

Vitamin E

Question 17

Clotting deficiency

Answer 17

Vitamin K

Question 18

Poor wound healing, decreased tastes and smell, alopecia, diarrhea, dermatitis (kind like pellagra) and depression

Answer 18

Zinc

Question 19

Marasmus is defined as

Answer 19

total calorie malnutrition –> pts look well but are immuno suppressed. poor wound healing

Question 20

Kwashiorkor is defined as..

Answer 20

edema/ascities, immunosuppression, poor wound healing.

Question 21

Excess in ______ can cause pseudotumor cerebri. Also can be caused by consuming polar bear livers.

Answer 21

Vitamin A