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Vitamin A is a crucial fat-soluble nutrient necessary for various bodily functions, including vision, immunity, and reproduction. It can be sourced from both animal and plant foods, with deficiencies primarily arising from inadequate intake or absorption. Symptoms of deficiency include night blindness, xerophthalmia, and reduced fertility, highlighting the importance of understanding vitamin A for health and livestock management.

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Vitamin A Presentation

Vitamin A is a crucial fat-soluble nutrient necessary for various bodily functions, including vision, immunity, and reproduction. It can be sourced from both animal and plant foods, with deficiencies primarily arising from inadequate intake or absorption. Symptoms of deficiency include night blindness, xerophthalmia, and reduced fertility, highlighting the importance of understanding vitamin A for health and livestock management.

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VITAMIN A

PRESENTED BY
MOKSADUL ISLAM

EXAM ROLL-615

PROSENJIT KUMAR ROY

EXAM ROLL-616
INTRODUCTION
Vitamin A is an essential nutrient needed in small amounts for the normal functioning of the visual system , and maintenance of
cell function for growth , epithelial integrity, red blood cell production , immunity and reproduction .

Vitamin A deficiency is a major nutritional concern in poor societies , especially in lower country.

• Vitamin a is a fat soluble vitamin

• Present only in foods of plant and animal origin

• Its provitamins carotenes are found in plants

Chemistry
• Retinol, retinal and retinoic acid are termed as vitamins of vitamin A
Sources

Animal sources Plant sources


1.Eggs 1.Carrots

2.Meat 2. Sweet potatoes


3.Cheese 3. apricots
4.Milk 4. Broccoli
5.Liver 5. Pumpkin
6.Kidney 6. Papaya
7.Fish liver oils 7. Mango
Function
• It is necessary for the development of epithelial tissue , membrane and mucous
• Retinol regulates the pigments that make vision possible.
• It has antioxidant properties
• Vitamin A help in reproduction
• Vitamin A helps in development in bone
• It helps in in growth
• Prevent xeropthalmia

Causes of vitamin deficiency


• Inadequate dietary intake
• Poor absorption of vitamin
• Inadequate conversion of beta-carotene
• Exhaustion of vitamin a store in liver
• Deficiency of zinc and protein
DEFICIENCY SYMPTOM
1.Nyctalopia (night blindness)

2.Xeropthalmia

3.Keratomalacia

4.Complete blindness

5.Reduces glossiness of skin

6.Scaly,dry and itchy skin

7.Reduce reproduction and fertility

8. Reduce antioxidant property


Producers must have knowledge about
vitamin A ,its importance and impact on
livestock for the betterment of livestock
industry
THANK YOU EVERYONE

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