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early stages of avitaminosis?...?


can anyone describe me few avitaminoses in their early stages? The earliest manifestation for them? whereever I looked all I could find was description of manifestations when the avitaminose is already frust.
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A -Night blindness is the earliest from A deficiency.
Psychological disorders also appear early-on.

See the Merck Manual for many others
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section1/chapter3/3j.jsp

The American Ex-Prisoners of War web site has information available in laymans terms.

See Presumptive Service Connected Disabilities, Public Law 97-37 (Layman’s Terms) at http://www.axpow.org/med_camp.html

Avitaminosis - starvation - look up Ancel Keyes research

If you have time to read - just about any book on Santo Tomas internment camp in WWII, Manila, where nearly 4000 allied civilians - children, men, and women, were within 3 weeks of death due to starvation, when they were liberated, will have 1st hand information.  (+ info)


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