Sentences with word «xerophthalmia»

These include reversible night blindness and then non-reversible corneal damage known as xerophthalmia.

The so - called «big four» are: protein - energy malnutrition (PEM), with 500 million people affected and 10 million dying every year; vitamin A deficiency, causing xerophthalmia and blindness, which affect 6 million people a year and kill 750,000; endemic goiter, caused by iodine deficiency and affecting 150 million people a year; and nutritional anemia, affecting 350 million people a year.

Good nutrition also prevents child from diseases like anemia and xerophthalmia which are very common during childhood.

Signs of a vitamin A deficiency in cats are similar to those in other species, except that classic xerophthalmia, follicular hyperkeratosis, and retinal degeneration are rarely seen and usually are associated with concomitant protein deficiency.

For example, stopping breastfeeding at an early age is a factor associated with increased risk of diarrhoea, xerophthalmia and death (4)(5).

The nineteenth century also saw the use of cod liver oil expand to the prevention and treatment of rickets, a bone disease now known to result from a deficiency of vitamin D, and xerophthalmia, an infectious eye disease now known to result from a deficiency of vitamin A.

The World Health Organization estimates that 9.8 million pregnant women around the world have xerophthalmia as a result of vitamin A deficiency [13].