nutrition deficiency effects on the eyes
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WERNICKE’S ENCEPHALOPATHY:
-Eye movement disorder (nystagmus, bilateral lateral rectus palsies, and conjugate gaze palsies),
- opthalmoplegia,
- Less frequently noted are pupillary abnormalities such as sluggishly reactive pupils, ptosis, scotomata, and anisocoria
photophobia corneal opacity
peripheral corneal neovascularizationNutritional Optic
neuropathy
Cataracts
Vitamin B₁₂ = Cyanocobalamin• Pale conjunctiva
• Nutritional ambylopia
• Tobacco-alcohol ambylopia
• Nutritional optic neuropathy
• Eye movements disorder: nystagmus
• Bilateral intraretinal hemorrhages, cotton-wool spots, Roth spots (white-centered hemorrhages, papilledema
• Vitamin D deficiency in children can cause cataract
• Nearsightedness
• papilledema
• Increased risk of age related Macular degeneration
• Cataracts and disorders of the retina and the eye's blood vessels.
• opthalmoplegia
• increased risk for early aged related macular degeneration