Vitamin deficiencies

Question 1

Water soluble vitamins

Answer 1

B + C

Question 2

Lipid soluble vitamins

Answer 2

A,D,E,K

Question 3

Vitamin A AKA

Answer 3

Retinol

Question 4

What vitamin should be avoided in pregnancy?

Answer 4

Vitamin A as can cause birth defects. Cod liver oil and liver products should also be avoided

Question 5

Symptoms of vitamin A deficiency

Answer 5

Dry skin, visual defects and increased susceptibility to infections

Question 6

Vitamin B1

Answer 6

Thiamine

Question 7

What should be avoided in mothers with thiamine deficiency?

Answer 7

Breastfeeding as build up of toxic metabolite

Question 8

Which drugs can cause a vitamin B6 deficiency?

Answer 8

Penicillamine and Isoniaziod

Question 9

Vitamin B6

Answer 9

Pyridoxine

Question 10

Vitamin B12

Answer 10

Cobalamin, hydroxocobalamin

Question 11

Complications of severe vitamin B deficiency?

Answer 11

Wernickes encelopathy and kroskaffs psychosis

Question 12

How is severe vitamin B deficiency treated/ prevented?

Answer 12

IV pabrinex followed by oral thiamine

Question 13

Vitamin C

Answer 13

Ascorbic acid

Question 14

What can severe deficiency in vitamin C cause?

Answer 14

Scurvy- gingival swelling, petechiae on skin, bleeding margins

Question 15

What can high doses of vitaminn D cause

Answer 15

Hypercalcaemia

Question 16

Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency

Answer 16

Rickets (bowed legs, thickening of the ankles, and pain in the joints) and osteomalacia ‘soft bones’