Vitamin A deficiency in rural based tertiary care centre
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Aims and objectives To study the incidence of clinical forms of vitamin A deficiency and create awareness for importance of dietary vitamin A among parentsMaterials and Methods This cross sectional study was done in a rural based tertiary care centre which included 256 patients attending the paediatric OPD between the age group of 1 month to 10 years during July and August 2015 Questionnaires were prepared for socioeconomic status and nutritional status An ophthalmic examination was carried out along with a trained paraopthalmic assistant in the paediatric OPD The findings of torch light examination were confirmed on slit lamp examination The positive findings of vitamin A deficiency were compared with the WHO classification Statistical analysis was done by using the SPSS software V11Results The total number of children examined were 256 which included 101 395 from rural areas and 155 605 from urban areas Conjuctival xerosis was noted in 19 74 children out of which 9 children 35 were from urban and 10 children 39 from rural areas 21 children 8 suffered from night blindness which is another sign of Vitamin A deficiency XNConclusionnbsp Vitamin A deficiency affects most of the school going children in rural India and it occurs mainly due to dietary insufficiency hence can be preventedKeywords Conjunctival xerosis Incidence Kuppuswamy scale Xeropthalmia
Authors and Affiliations
Archana Nikose, Aditya Rokade, Pradnya Laddha, Prateek Mohod
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