A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-Blindness.

A Clinical Study of Nutritional Xerophthalmia and Night-blindness

Determinants of vitamin A deficiency amongst children in Aligarh District, Uttar Pradesh.

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and determinants of xerophthalmia among children aged 0-60 months . METHODS This cross-sectional study included 3571 children under 5 years of age from six villages and four periurban areas. Children with xerophthalmia were identified and severity graded using the WHO classification. The main outcome measures were socio-demographic, nutritional and comor...

Nerve and Cord Degeneration Referable to Vitamin-A Deficiency

In 1933 I inspected a large number of prisoners in the jails of Ceylon for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies. The results were reported in this journal (Nicholls, 1933). The conditions which were attributed to vitamin-A deficiency were :?a papular dry skin eruption (phrynoderma), night blindness, dimness of sight, xerophthalmia, keratomalacia, a lowered resistance to dysentery, and...

Experimental Hemeralopia Uncomplicated by Xerophthalmia in Macacus Rhesus.

THE primary aim of this study was to see whether structural changes occurred in the retinae of monkeys suffering from night blindness as a result of a deficiency of vitamin A induced in such a way that xerophthalmia would not complicate matters. In India, as elsewhere, night blindness is common as an isolated phenomenon for which there may be several causes in addition to that of vitamin A defi...

Ocular Manifestations of Nutritional Disease

MALNUTRITION as a cause of blindness has been and still is, much underestimated. In many countries it is the chief cause of blindness in young children. The onset is insidious and difficult to diagnose and the later stages proceed rapidly to irreversible damage. Opthalmologists have tended not to be particularly interested in conditions that do not make demands on their diagnostic or surgical s...