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<p>A practical guide, now in its third edition, to the detection, treatment, and prevention of vitamin A deficiency and its consequences, including associated mortality, infectious morbidity, and xerophthalmia. Addressed to clinicians, nurses, and public health officials, the text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in knowledge. These include growing recognition of the importance of adequate vitamin A intake for normal child health and survival, and evidence that milder degrees of deficiency may have severe consequences, including increased mortality, before xerophthalmia becomes apparent in a population. In line with these advances, the guide offers advice on the detection and treatment of sub-clinical or marginal degrees of deficiency as well as on the emergency management of xerophthalmia and measles. The guide has six chapters. Background information is provided in the first two, which describe the biochemistry of vitamin A metabolism and explain the complex relationship between specific serum levels and the physiological consequences of deficiency. The third chapter provides a detailed guide to the clinical classification and diagnosis of xerophthalmia. Rec

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Author

Sommer, Alfred, 1942-

Publisher

World Health Organization, c1995.

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9789241544788

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine