Acquired night blindness due to bad eating patterns

A Case of Night-Blindness Due to Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection

Night eating patterns of individuals with eating disorders: implications for conceptualizing the night eating syndrome.

The prevalence, correlates, and symptom coherence of night eating syndrome (NES) in individuals seeking inpatient treatment for eating disorders were assessed. Inpatients (n=68; M age=29.8 years; % female=94.1; % diagnosed with anorexia nervosa [AN]=47.1; % diagnosed with bulimia nervosa [BN]=47.1) were interviewed with the Night Eating Syndrome History and Inventory. Additionally, medical char...

Circadian eating and sleeping patterns in the night eating syndrome.

OBJECTIVE To compare the eating and sleep-wake patterns of persons with the night eating syndrome (NES) with those of matched control subjects. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Forty-six overweight/obese NES subjects (mean age 43.3 +/- 9.8 years; 32 women) and 43 similar controls (mean age 39.0 +/- 11.0 years; 28 women) wore wrist actigraphs for 7 days and completed sleep and food diaries at h...

Action of White Santonin in Night-Blindness Due to Intestinal Worms

Sir,?I had a creat mind to send this article, long ago, to be published in your esteemed paper, but ruther shrunk from so doing, as from none of my available books I could find any information with regard to wonderful therapeutic action of White Santonin ordinarily supplied from Government Medical Stores in India. I referred the matter some three months ago to my Medical Officer, Captain J. B. ...

Night blindness due to vitamin A deficiency associated with resected adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.

Dear Sir, W e write to present a rare case of night blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency secondary to resected adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of this association. A 62 year-old man presented to the eye clinic with a 12mo history of worsening nyctalopia and colour perception. Three and a half years previously, he underwent a Whipple's procedu...