1. Sandford-Smith John
2. Rajak Saul

9781909836228

10.5005/jp/books/12751_11

5/e

2015

26

1. Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK; Christian Hospital, Quetta, Pakistan; Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria
2. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Visual loss, malnutrition, nutritional corneal ulceration, vitamin A supplements, food fortification, dry eyes, blinding disease, protein energy malnutrition, traditional eye medications, immunization, starchy white foods, Bitot spot, active vitamin retinol, carotene pigment, staple diet, fat-soluble, carotenes, retinol binding protein, carrier protein, biochemical functions, mucous membranes, rhodopsin, electrical impulse, limbus, pigmentation, conjunctival xerosis, vitamin A deficiency, night blindness, necrotic, collagenase enzymes, corneal scar, blink reflex, depress cellular immunity, growth spurt, antibiotic ointment, cyclopentolate 1%, nutritional foods, traditional healers, corneal ulcer, dried skimmed milk, essential micronutrient, protein deficiency malnutrition, bulbar conjunctiva, retinal rod, shrunken blind eye, staphyloma formation, bilateral corneal scarring, dispense injection, eye medication, corneal ulceration, goblet cells