Vision Loss in a Healthy Child: A Case of Vitamin A Deficiency

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is common in developing countries but rare in resource-rich countries. In developed countries, malabsorption and behavioral issues are more common reasons for VAD. The current case is an example of a healthy child who developed ocular symptoms due to vitamin A deficiency i...

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Autores principales: Garza, Nicholas J, Gonzalez, Rafael, Snider, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36561592
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31683
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description Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is common in developing countries but rare in resource-rich countries. In developed countries, malabsorption and behavioral issues are more common reasons for VAD. The current case is an example of a healthy child who developed ocular symptoms due to vitamin A deficiency in the setting of cultural influences and emotional stressors.
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spelling pubmed-97676682022-12-21 Vision Loss in a Healthy Child: A Case of Vitamin A Deficiency Garza, Nicholas J Gonzalez, Rafael Snider, Jennifer Cureus Family/General Practice Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is common in developing countries but rare in resource-rich countries. In developed countries, malabsorption and behavioral issues are more common reasons for VAD. The current case is an example of a healthy child who developed ocular symptoms due to vitamin A deficiency in the setting of cultural influences and emotional stressors. Cureus 2022-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9767668/ /pubmed/36561592 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31683 Text en Copyright © 2022, Garza et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767668/
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