Medicalcortexover 6 years ago
Bitot’s spot
Bitot’s spot is eye disorder characterized by superficial foamy patches, composed of epithelial debris (dead surface cells) and secretions, that develop on the exposed bulbar conjunctiva (white of the eye) as a manifestaion of advanced vitamin A deficiency due to malnutrition, alcoholism, old age Celiac or Crohn's diseases... Treatment is vitamin A supplementation and β-Carotene.
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over 6 years ago
Vitamin A deficiency can also result in Metaplasia... which as a result changes the cell type in the eyes
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