Herpes simplex virus type I (KOS) was instilled onto the eyes of rabbits with experimentally induced xerophthalmia (vitamin A deficient) and control animals fed a vitamin A supplemented diet. The severity of the herpes virus-induced corneal disease, assessed by biomicroscopic examination and by counting the number of corneal lesions as well as by determining the virus titers, was significantly ...

Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis (HPP) may occur as a rare complication of Sjogren Syndrome (SS) and Renal Tubular Acidosis (RTA). A 64-year male patient came with HPP, and was later diagnosed with distal RTA. The patient, who had no xerostomia and xerophthalmia, was diagnosed with primary SS from serologic and histologic findings of minor salivary gland biopsy. The patient recovered after potass...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 For the last four to five decades, cataract has been the most common cause of blindness worldwide; it is also a leading cause of visual impairment. Before this, fewer people grew old enough to develop cataract and infectious diseases (trachoma, onchocerciasis, measles) were thought to cause most blindness. Thanks to improved hygiene, ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of Anganwadi Workers (AWW) for detection and prevention of disability in children below 6 years of age. DESIGN Cross sectional and longitudinal follow up. SETTING Ten Anganwadi Centers in ICDS Urban Project. METHODS Trained AWWs identified disabilities and instituted preventive measures like immunization and supplementary nutrition. Simultaneous independent...

We describe the cases of 2 autistic children with ophthalmic and systemic manifestations of vitamin A deficiency due to food faddism. Although vitamin A deficiency is common in the developing world, reports in developed societies are rare. Our patients presented over a 1-year period. The patients were 14 and 13 years old at the time of presentation and were both found to have marked features of...

Sjogren's syndrome can cause many organic changes, but is rarely accompanied by pleuritis. We report a 65-year-old patient with primary Sjogren's syndrome who developed bilateral pleuritis with moderately large effusions. He was diagnosed as having Sjogren's syndrome, based on xerophthalmia, xerostomia, positive results for anti-Sjogren's syndrome (anti-SS-A/SS-B) antibodies, the Schirmer test ...

The recent work of Chick and Hume,’ Cohen and Mendel,2 Hess and Unger,z and Givens and Cohen4 gives full support to the earlie,r views of Hoist and Fr61ichK that scurvy is the result of a deficiency of some nutritive factor in the diet. If we understand by the term vitamine the chemically unknown substances of food origin essential for the normal performance of the function of animal life there...