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Deficiency Diseases: Presented by Saumya Singh 6B

Deficiency diseases occur due to a lack of nutrients over a long period of time. Some key deficiency diseases include marasmus caused by a lack of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates; kwashiorkor caused by a lack of proteins; and night blindness caused by a lack of vitamin A. Other deficiency diseases are caused by a lack of vitamin B1, C, D, calcium, phosphorus, iodine or iron. Deficiency diseases develop when the body has been without the essential nutrient for some time and can cause symptoms like swelling, bleeding gums, stunted growth, and anemia.

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Deficiency Diseases: Presented by Saumya Singh 6B

Deficiency diseases occur due to a lack of nutrients over a long period of time. Some key deficiency diseases include marasmus caused by a lack of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates; kwashiorkor caused by a lack of proteins; and night blindness caused by a lack of vitamin A. Other deficiency diseases are caused by a lack of vitamin B1, C, D, calcium, phosphorus, iodine or iron. Deficiency diseases develop when the body has been without the essential nutrient for some time and can cause symptoms like swelling, bleeding gums, stunted growth, and anemia.

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DEFICIENCY DISEASES

PRESENTED BY SAUMYA SINGH


6B
What is Deficiency
Disease ?
Diseases that occur due to
lack of nutrients over a long
period of time are called
‘Deficiency Diseases’.
DEFICIENCY CAUSED BY LACK SYMPTOMS FOOD GIVING
DISEASE OF WHICH DEFICIENT
NUTRIENT NUTRIENT
1. Marasmus Proteins ,fats, The child becomes Rice ,Wheat ,Egg ,
carbohydrates so thin that loose Fish, Meat, Nuts
folds of skin, can ,Honey,
be seen all over Potatoes ,Maize
the body. The ribs etc.
of the child can be
seen.
2. Kwashiorkor Proteins The abdomen of Milk, eggs, fish,
the child gets meat, pulses etc.
swollen and bulges
out and the legs
become so thin.
3. Night Blindness Vitamin A The person cannot Carrot, mango,
see in dim light or papaya, butter,
loss of vision in milk, fish, green
darkness. vegetables etc.
4. Beriberi Vitamin B1 Dry skin, extreme Milk, eggs, meat,
weakness, weak green leafy
muscles, very little vegetables, whole
energy. grains etc.
DEFICIENCY CAUSED BY LACK SYMPTOMS FOOD GIVING
DISEASES OF WHICH DEFICIENT
NUTRIENT NUTRIENT

5. Scurvy Vitamin C Swelling and Citrus Fruits


bleeding of gums. (Lemon ,orange
etc.), tomatoes
etc.

6.Rickets Vitamin D Bent legs, Milk, fish, eggs etc.


deformed bones,
stunned growth.

7. Improper Calcium and Bones and teeth Milk, green


development of phosphorus become weak and vegetables, meat ,
bones and teeth brittle. fish ,pulses ,
Nuts etc.
8. Goitre Iodine Swelling of the Fish, seafood,
thyroid gland. iodised salt

9.Anaemia Iron The blood carries less


oxygen in the body
Eggs, pulses,
resulting, pale face, cereals,
tiredness, loss of appetite
and weight.
spinach etc.
Things To Note :-
 1.People who do not get enough food to
eat suffers from Malnutrition.
Malnutrition leads to ‘Deficiency
Diseases’.
 2.‘Deficiency Diseases’ may not be
caught until the body has been without
the nutrient for some time.

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