Nutritional Blindness

Nutritional Amblyopia Combined with Night Blindness

We report the case of an 18-year-old male who developed both nutritional amblyopia and night blindness. After nearly a lifetime of consuming a bizarre diet limited to French fries, pretzels, crackers, and carbonated sodas, he had a relatively sudden onset of night blindness and bilateral visual loss. The night blindness resolved after taking daily oral vitamin A supplements. Visual acuity gradu...

Nutritional blindness and diarrhoea in Bangladesh.

Nutritional blindness due to vitamin A deficiency needlessly blinds 30000 preschool-age children in Bangladesh each year. The sight of over 100000 children is threatened by corneal lesions. These figures come from a national study by Helen Keller International (HKI), the Institute of Public Health and Nutrition (IPHN), and the Programme for the Prevention of Blindness. The International Centre ...

A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-blindness

A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-Blindness.

Night blindness of pregnancy in rural Nepal--nutritional and health risks.

BACKGROUND Night blindness (XN) is the most common clinical symptom of vitamin A deficiency among children in developing countries. Yet little is known about the aetiology or associated risks of maternal XN. Emerging evidence from South East Asia suggests that it may be more frequent than previously thought in women of reproductive age, especially during pregnancy. METHODS A population-based,...