Lack of any vitamin impairs the efficiency of the body, but
lack of vitamin A rarely results in a disease that incapacitates the victim or
prevents him from earning a living.
A, like any other vitamin tends to make bodily tissue
resistant to germs. But only if one maintain a healthy regimen.
In children, lack of vitamin A results in retarded growth
and imperfectly formed bones and teeth. And though adequate doses of vitamin A
will not quarantee immunity from colds and similar infections. It will help to
make children healthier and more robust.
The function of vitamin A is to keep healthy the epithelium
or linings of the mucous membrane throughout the body. If these are not
maintained, surfaces grow rough and horny (keratinisation) and failure to
secret sufficient fluid.
The conjunctiva of the eye becomes affected as well as the
linings of the respiratory, digestive and urogenital tracts. They become
clogged with lifeless, horny cells in which all sorts of dangerous
micro-organism flourish.
In birds, the feathers are affected. In animals the fur. And
both human beings, as well as animals, suffer from a peculiar and
characteristic eye disease
One result of vitamin A deficiency is night blindness. Lack
of vitamin A also causes a disease known as xerophthalmia (dry eye)
In children, the symptoms of this disease are stunting of
growth, apathy and wasting. And in all, diarrhea, bronchitis, pneumonia,
catarrh and discharges of pus from the nose and ears and in the urine. Very
unpleasant indeed.
Shortly after the second world war. Tests carried out in the
united states showed that 50% of normal children and adults were mildly
deficient in vitamin A. and of those admitted to hospital. 5% ahd a serious
deficiency.
Many adults suffer from a vitamin A deficiency, but because
the symptoms are not painful or crippling. They are unaware of it. Often no
notice is taking, until they start to grow blind. Blindness from such cause is
unnecessary and can be prevented by doses of 3,000 IU of vitamin A daily. This
is equivalent to two miligrammes of Nnendu Carotene. Or 1/50,000th
of an ounce.
Mostly new born babies have a low Vitamin A reserve and as
mother milk is not rich enough to build this up quickly. Incase like Nnendu
Carotene is our prescription. A baby
should be given 1,000-3,000 IU daily and nursing mothers 10,000 IU.
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