Vitamins are defined as the organic substance

not made by the body, which is soluble in

either fat or water and is ordinarily needed
only in minute quantities to act as a cofactor in
a variety of metabolic reactions.

PROVITAMINS
 VITAMINS

WATER
FAT SOLUBLE
SOLUBLE
VITAMINS
VITAMINS

VITAMIN A VITAMIN D VITAMIN E VITAMIN K VITAMIN B VITAMIN C

Sources:
Requirement:
Functions of Vitamin - A
-carotene
(antioxidant)

Retinol
(steroid hormone-growth and
differentiation )

Retinal Retinyl phosphate

(visual cycle) (glycoprotein synthesis)

Retinoic acid
(steroid hormone-growth
and differentiation)
Deficiency of vitamin A leads to
Squamous metaplasia
Xeropthalmia
Bitots spots
Night blindness
Oral manifestations:
Desquamation of oral mucosa
Xerostomia
Keratosis
Gingival hypertrophy
Lichen planus
Caries
Candidal infections
 BONE AND JOINT LOW GRADE
HAIR LOSS HEPATOMEGALY ANOREXIA WEIGHT LOSS
PAIN FEVER
Sources:
Requirement:
 MAINTAINENCE OF CALCIUM AND
PHOSPHATE LEVELS IN THE BODY

POTENT BONE RESORPTION STIMULATOR

IS INVOLVED IN CELL PROLIFERATION AND

DIFFERENTIATION

IMPROVES MUSCLE STRENGTH AND IMMUNE

RESPONSE
 Osteomalacia
Rickets
Vitamin d resistant rickets
Renal rickets
Hypophosphatasia
Pseduohypophosphatasia
Sources:
Requirement:
 PREVENTS LIPID
ANTIOXIDANT PEROXIDATION IN
BIOLOGICL MEMBRANE

Vitamin-E

AIDS IN
PREVENTS STERILITY
ERYTHROPOIESIS
Sources:
Requirement: