Deficiency of Vitamins / Dietary Deficiency Diseases 1

Deficiency of proteins and calories (Protein Energy Malnutrition – PEM) generally occurs in

What is the indication of Protein Energy Malnutrition – PEM

What are the most serious forms of Protein Energy Malnutrition – PEM

Human body contains about _____ minerals.

Minerals are needed for

Deficiency of Calcium and Phosphorus causes _____ in children and _____ in adults.

Deficiency of sodium chloride are

Why is Magnesium important for human body?

What are the deficiencies of magnesium

Iron is essential for the formation of _____.

What is the deficiency of iron

Which tablets should be given for the treatment of iron deficiency?

Iodine is found in _______.

Why is Iodine required for our body?

What are the deficiencies of Iodine?

Prevention of Iodine deficiency is

Inadequate amounts of fluorine cause

Measles, an infectious disease, especially of children, that causes fever and small red spots that cover the whole body is treated with

Night blindness and xerophthalmia are caused due to the deficiency of which vitamin?

Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults are the deficiency of which vitamin?

In pregnancy, which vitamin helps the development of a baby’s bones.

Which vitamin helps our body absorb calcium through the small intestine.

Lack of exposure to sunlight can lead to which vitamin deficiency?

Rickets is a preventable bone disease of early childhood, caused by which vitamin deficiency.

Vitamin E deficiencies are

Deficiencies of Vitamin K is

Which vitamin could prevent serious bleeding in newborn babies, including Haemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn (HDN)

Vitamin C is also called ______.

Vitamin C deficiencies are

Deficiency of Vitamin B1 known as thiamine is

Deficiency of Vitamin B3 also known as Niacin is

Why is some small amount of sun exposure is needed to keep us healthy?

Oral zinc is used for treating _____ in children.