The document discusses vitamins, their history, and deficiency disorders associated with various vitamins. It outlines the roles of fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, K and their related deficiencies, as well as water-soluble vitamins including B vitamins and their specific deficiency conditions. Key deficiencies mentioned include night blindness, rickets, and scurvy, highlighting the impact of vitamin deficiencies on health.

1. VITAMINS
Vinitha S Babu

2. Organic
Compounds
Small
Quantities
Casimir
Funk (1912)
Father of Vitamin
Therapy

5. Retinol,
Retinal,
Retinoic Acid

6. Deficiency Disorders
Night blindness- Nyctalopia:
poor vision at night
Keratomalacia: cornea becomes
dry

8. Ergocalciferol Cholecalciferol

9. Deficiency Disorders
•Rickets
•Osteomalacia

10. Tocopherol

11. Deficiency Disorders
• Mild haemolytic anaemia

13. K1 – Phylloquinone
K2 – Menaquinone

14. Deficiency Disorders
•Bleeding diathesis : Irregular and
slow blood clotting

15. WATER SOLUBLE VITAMINS

16. B 5
B 12
B 1
B 3
B 7 B 5
B 2
B 6

17. Vitamin B1: Deficiency Disorders
2 Types
• Wet: Heart Failures
• Dry: Paralysis

18. Vitamin B2: Deficiency Disorders
Ariboflavinosis: sores in mouth

19. Vitamin B3: Deficiency Disorders
Pellagra

20. Vitamin B5: Deficiency Disorder
Paraesthesia

21. Vitamin B6: Deficiency Disorder

22. Vitamin B9: Deficiency Disorders
Neural tube defects
in infants

23. Pernicious Anaemia:
no DNA synthesis
during RBC
production

25. Deficiency Disorder: Scurvy