- General Drug Summary
- Description
- Retinol and derivatives of retinol that play an essential role in metabolic functioning of the retina, the growth of and differentiation of epithelial tissue, the growth of bone, reproduction, and the immune response. Dietary vitamin A is derived from a variety of carotenoids found in plants. It is enriched in the liver, egg yolks, and the fat component of dairy products. [PubChem]
- Also Known As
- [11,12-3H]-Retinol; all-trans-retinol; All-trans-Retinyl alcohol; all-trans-Vitamin A; All-trans-Vitamin A alcohol; all-trans-Vitamin A1; beta-Retinol; Retin-11,12-t2-ol (9CI); Retinol; trans-Retinol; trans-Vitamin A alcohol; Vitamin A (Feed); Vitamin A alcohol; Vitamin A cryst; Vitamin A Palmitate; Vitamin A Solubilized; Vitamin A1; Vitamin A1 alcohol
- Groups
- approved; nutraceutical
- Structure
- Summary In Neonatal Jaundice
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1 record(s) for Vitamin A Effective in Maintaining Remission in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- Vitamin A
- Effective in Maintaining Remission
- Review
- Summary
- Essential for the growth and normal function of human body.
- [Vitamins in pregnancy]. Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicin, 1999 Oct [Go to PubMed]
- Vitamins are essential for the growth and normal function of human body. There are very few reports on vitamin A deficiency in pregnant women and newborn. Vitamin B complex includes various fractions essential to proper nutrition. The absence of vitamin C results Barlow disease in newborn. Vitamin D, the antirachitic Vitamin, is of great importance in safeguarding the mother and fetus from its relation to calcium and phosphorus metabolism. Vitamin E is also useful for the treatment of toxemia of pregnancy, intra-uterine growth retardation (IUGR), and neonatal jaundice. Vitamin K is well known for the protection of neonatal hemorrhage. The 6th recommended dietary allowances for Japanese in 1999 is shown in the table.
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1 record(s) for Vitamin A NA in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- Haematological profiles of the people of rural southern Malawi: an overview. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology, 2004 Jan [Go to PubMed]
- An integrative review of the results of two published and two unpublished studies of anaemia in children, adolescent females, pregnant women and adults living in southern Malawi is presented. Anaemia was universally present in all age-groups, with the higher prevalences in infants (100%) and adolescent primigravidae (93.8%). Nutritional deficits of iron and vitamin A were major contributory factors but chronic malarial haemolysis also significantly contributed to the anaemia. Among boys, anaemia was more common among those with glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency than in those without this deficiency (P<0.002). This enzymopathy, which occurred in 23.5% [95% confidence interval (CI)=16.7%-30.1%] of the male and 30% (CI=17.3%-42.7%) of the female infants examined, was also associated with neonatal jaundice. The overall prevalences of the-alpha(3.7)/alphaalpha and -alpha(3.7)/-alpha(3.7) thalassaemia genotypes were estimated at 41.0% (CI=28.3%-53.7%) and 8.7% (CI=1.5%-15.9%), respectively. Haemoglobin AS was present in 18.1% (CI=12.8%-23.4%) of the infants and haemoglobin SS in 2.5% (CI=1.4%-3.6%). As the prevalence of infection with Plasmodium falciparum was significantly higher in infants with haemoglobin AS than in those with AA (21.4% v. 6.7%; P<0.001), an increased risk of early-onset moderate parasitaemias in young infants probably stimulates the development of immunity, protecting older heterozygotes from severe malarial infection. Innovative community approaches are required to break the cycle of ill health that anaemia supports in those living in rural areas of southern Malawi. Interventions in adolescent girls could be of particular importance, as they could break the cycle in both pregnant women and their infants.