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Prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency among school going children of Jasra block of Allahabad, India
- Source :
- Journal of Applied and Natural Science. 10:4-5
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- ANSF Publications, 2018.
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Abstract
- The present study was conducted to find out the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency(VAD) among school going children of district Allahabad in year 2015 to assess the nutritional status of selected school going children (aged 6-12 years). The six months study was based on school going children in four selected village in Jasra block of Allahabad district.A structured Performa was used to collect the information. Out of the 105 children examined, 2 (1.90%) had clinical signs of night blindness. The overall prevalence of VAD was found to be 10.47%. Most of them exhibited dull and lusterless appearance of conjunctiva, non-had bitot’s spot, any corneal xerosis, corneal scare and keratomalacia. The prevalence of VAD was higher in girls rather than in boys. To overcome this problem of VAD persisting in community, nutrition education regarding regular intake of plant food rich in carotene such as green leafy vegetables, yellow fruits, carrots and animal foods containing retinol like fish liver oil, fortified food like vana- spati, margarine should be strengthened.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
030109 nutrition & dietetics
General Immunology and Microbiology
business.industry
Nutrition Education
Retinol
Nutritional status
Plant foods
medicine.disease
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Vitamin A deficiency
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Keratomalacia
Environmental health
Medicine
Leafy vegetables
Fortified Food
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22315209 and 09749411
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied and Natural Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c3aa6725c913c24ef407ad2e92385787