Vitamins and Deficiency Diseases
Classification and common deficiency diseases.
1Classification
- Fat-soluble: A, D, E, K
- Water-soluble: B-complex, C
2Deficiency diseases
- Vitamin A – Night blindness
- Vitamin B1 – Beriberi
- Vitamin C – Scurvy
- Vitamin D – Rickets
- Vitamin K – Impaired blood clotting