Sentences with phrase «xerophthalmia which»

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

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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.

Vitamin A deficiency can result in visual or ocular malfunctions such as night blindness and xerophthalmia (1) and can reduce immune responsiveness (2), which can result in an increased incidence or severity of respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections (3), and measles (4).

In 1922, the same researchers showed that cod liver oil aerated at the temperature of boiling water for 12 to 20 hours retained its antirachitic property, but lost its effectiveness against xerophthalmia, confirming the separate identity of these two factors, the second of which came to be known as vitamin D.

This was the first paper suggesting that the factor that treated xerophthalmia — an eye condition caused by vitamin A deficiency — was a separate factor from that which treated rickets, due to their different distribution among foods.