Folate deficiency: causes
A FOLIC DROP:

• Alcoholism
• Folic acid antagonists
• Oral contraceptives
• Low dietary intake
• Infection with Giardia
• Celiac sprue
• Dilatin
• Relative folate deficiency
• Old
• Pregnant

Hypervitaminosis A: signs and symptoms
“Increased Vitamin A makes you HARD“:

• Headache/ Hepatomegaly
• Anorexia/ Alopecia
• Really painful bones
• Dry skin/ Drowsiness

B vitamin names
“The Rhythm Nearly Proved Contagious”:
In increasing order:

• Thiamine (B1)
• Riboflavin (B2)
• Niacin (B3)
• Pyridoxine (B6)
• Cobalamin (B12)

Infantile Beriberi symptoms
Restlessness
Sleeplessness
Breathlessness
Soundlessness (aphonia)
Eatlessness (anorexia)
Great heartedness (dilated heart)
Alternatively: Get 5 of ’em with BERI: Breathless/ Big hearted, Eatless, Restless, Insomnia.

Niacin deficiency: signs and symptoms
The famous 4 D’s:

• Diarrhoea
• Dermatitis
• Dementia
• Death (if untreated)

Vitamin B3 (niacin, nicotinic acid) deficiency: pellagra
The 3 D‘s of pellagra:

• Dermatitis
• Diarrhea
• Dementia

Note vitamin B3 is the 3 D’s.

Vitamins: which are fat soluble
KADE:

• Vitamin K
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E

Vitamins: which are fat soluble
“The FAT cat is in the ADEK (attic)”:
Fat soluble vitamins are A,D,E,K.