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What vitamin deficiency can cause alopecia (hair loss) in adults?
What vitamin deficiency can lead to gingival erosions and bleeding, perifollicular erythema/hemorrhage, and follicular plugging?
What vitamin deficiency can cause rickets (exclusively in breastfed infants), bowed legs, thick ankles and wrists, greenstick fractures, frontal bossing, and osteomalacia (adult form of rickets)?
Study Notes
- Vitamin A deficiency can cause night blindness and xerophthalmia.
- Vitamin C deficiency can lead to gingival erosions and bleeding, perifollicular erythema/hemorrhage, and follicular plugging.
- Vitamin D deficiency can cause alopecia (hair loss) in adults.
- Zinc deficiency can cause inherited or acquired acrodermatitis enteropathica (AR form), acrofacial vesiculobullous crusts, erosions, and angular cheilitis.
- Iron deficiency can cause rickets (exclusively in breastfed infants), bowed legs, thick ankles and wrists, greenstick fractures, frontal bossing, and osteomalacia (adult form of rickets).
- Vitamin K deficiency can cause hemorrhage, ecchymoses, and purpura in adults.
- and Vitamin B12 deficiency can lead to pernicious anemia.
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Test your knowledge of nutrient deficiencies and their associated symptoms with this quiz. Identify the symptoms caused by deficiencies in vitamins A, C, D, K, B12, zinc, iron, and more.
