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Question
Name the different fat soluble vitamins and their deficiency diseases.
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Solution
| Name of the Vitamin | Disease due to deficiency |
| Vitamin A | Hypovitaminosis: A Symptoms of deficiency: Night blindness, permanent, more frequent and severe infections, lack of growth, inability to reproduce. |
| Vitamin D | Rickets, osteomalacia. Symptoms of deficiency: Bowing of legs, demineralisation of bones, joint pain, muscle spasms. |
| Vitamin E | Skin diseases. Symptoms of deficiency: Anaemia, muscle weakness. |
| Vitamin K | Haemorrhaging, poor bone mineralization. |
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