Evaluation of Oral Vitamin-A Clinical Response in Keratinized Skin Diseases
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
Now a days vitamin A deficiency is prevailing more because of poor diet habits and other causes. Oral formulations of vitamin A are showing better results by increasing compliance than other type of formulations whereas in topical formulations application problems are common which intern shows less efficacy. This study was conducted for six months duration in the dermatology department. Patients were followed for 3 months with one month interval. At each follow up patients were assessed for prognosis of the disease through oral interview and physical examination. At baseline patients and their care takers were interviewed for the severity of symptoms, physical examination was done to observe the severity and site of disease in the body, other relevant information regarding their dietary habits, history of disease, occupation, economic status of their care takers. In 3 keratinised skin diseases included in our study, with vitamin A therapy 44.4% showed excellent response,33.3% showed good response followed by 11.1% showed poor response and 11.1% showed nil response Where as in B complex therapy 50% showed nil response 40% showed poor response followed by 10% showed good response and no patients showed excellent response. With this study we concluded that oral vitamin A therapy had beneficial effect in three keratinized skin diseases, i.e, phrynoderma, lichen spinulosus, and keratosis pilaris.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Narotham Reddy, Dr. S. Parveen, Syed. Allahuddin
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