Tag: nutrient deficiency diseases

Questions Related to nutrient deficiency diseases

Which of the following pair is characterised by swollen lips, thick pigmented skin of hands and legs, and irritability?

  1. Thiamine Beri-beri

  2. Protein Kwashiorkor

  3. Nicotinamide Pellagra

  4. Iodine Goitre


Correct Option: C

Which is mismatched?

  1. Vitamin K Beri-beri

  2. Vitamin C Scurvy

  3. Vitamin A Xerophthalmia

  4. Vitamin D Rickets


Correct Option: A

Deficiency of vitamin C / Ascorbic acid causes

  1. Rickets

  2. Beri-beri

  3. Scurvy

  4. Night blindness


Correct Option: C

Mark the deficiency disease

  1. Leukemia

  2. Addisons disease

  3. Scurvy

  4. Acromegaly


Correct Option: C

Bleeding gums / softening of bones / scurvy are caused by deficiency of

  1. A

  2. B

  3. C

  4. D


Correct Option: C

A doctor advises a patient to eat more yellow fruits, carrots and butter. The patient seems to be suffering from

  1. Kwashiorkor

  2. Marasmus

  3. Night blindness

  4. Colour blindness


Correct Option: C

Kwashiorkor and Beri-beri are

  1. Communicable diseases

  2. Infectious diseases

  3. Deficiency diseases

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

A person feeding on meat, egg and milk only will suffer from

  1. Night blindness

  2. Scurvy

  3. Rickets

  4. Beri-beri


Correct Option: B