Vitamin E deficiency

Vitamin E deficiency
Classification and external resources
Specialty	endocrinology
ICD-10	E56.0
ICD-9-CM	269.1
DiseasesDB	13950
eMedicine	article/126187
MeSH	D014811
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Vitamin E deficiency or hypovitaminosis E is a deficiency of vitamin E. It causes nerve problems due to poor conduction of electrical impulses along nerves due to changes in nerve membrane structure and function.

Signs of vitamin E deficiency include the following:

There is also some laboratory evidence that vitamin E deficiency can cause male infertility.

Vitamin E deficiency is rare and is almost never caused by a poor diet. Instead, there are three specific situations when a vitamin E deficiency is likely to occur:

The treatment is some form of Vitamin E supplementation.

Aggressive vitamin E replacement therapy has been shown to either prevent, halt or improve visual abnormalities.

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