We have probably all heard that carrots are good for our health, particularly for our eye health. This is primarily due to the very high levels of vitamin A and its natural precursor, beta-carotene, in carrots. In fact, a single cup of carrots has been reported to provide over 650% of our daily needs for vitamin A, which is simply amazing. In addition to being rich in vitamin A, carrots are a v...

Underlying these causes are factors such as household food insecurity (due to poverty or other reasons), inadequate care and feeding practices, unhealthy household environments and inadequate health services.1 How these factors inter-relate with each other is shown on page 64. Being undernourished for a long time can lead to stunting. In addition to its most obvious effects on stature (height),...

INTRODUCTION Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is recognized as a major cause of blindness among children in India. OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of VAD in rural children of Uttar Pradesh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was undertaken amongst children (0-15 years) in a rural area of Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) where the study population was selected by simple random sa...

One hundred seventy-eight children from three villages were studied in a cross-sectional fashion to evaluate the efficacy of conjunctival impression cytology (CIC) to characterize vitamin A status of individual children and populations of children and to examine the relationship of vitamin A status to nutritional status. Although children with abnormal CIC results had lower retinol concentratio...

AIMS To investigate the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency among lactating women in a poor urban population of Bangladesh, and to examine the relationship between various factors and vitamin A status. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Maternal and child health clinic in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 120 lactating women aged 17-37 years were randomly selected ...

Reported are estimates of the prevalence in developing countries of physiologically significant vitamin A deficiency and the number of attributable deaths. The WHO classification of countries by the severity and extent of xerophthalmia was used to categorize developing countries by likely risk of subclinical vitamin A deficiency. Using vital statistics compiled by UNICEF, we derived population ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the associations between breast-feeding, dietary intakes and other related factors and subclinical vitamin A deficiency (SVAD) in children aged 0-5 years in an area in China where mild vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is found. METHODS Data were from a population-based cross-sectional study with 1052 children aged 0-5 years. SVAD cases were identified by the in...

vitamin k is required for the hepatic production of blood coagulation factors ii, vii, ix and x. the term vitamin k refers to a variety of fat-soluble 2-methyl-1, 4-naphthoquinone derivatives. vitamin k1 (phylloquinone) occurs in green plants, while vitamin k2 (menaquinone) is synthesized by microbial in the gut. the recommended dose of vitamin k in neonates is 1 mg intramuscularly. for infants...

Vitamin D resistant rickets with alopecia is a rather rare heritable disease probably caused by a different variety of metabolic disorder of this vitamin. Disturbances of protoplasmic and unclear receptors for vitamin D metabolites in bones and intestinal cells have been proposed as basic mechanism; Alopecia is attributed to hypersensitivity to vitamin D; very much like what usually appears in ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurological disease and its prevalence is about 2 million in the world. Neuroinflammation plays a key role in MS. Vitamins are essential nutrients that have effective role on immune system including activation of lymphocyte and differentiation of T-helper cell. Vitamin D is a micronutrient that is effective on immune function. Deficiently of Vitamin D is a ...