Effects of Disease on Nutrition

Vitamin A in Infective Hepatitis

“…Absorption of Massive Doses of Vitamin A Several workers (Breese and McCoord, 1940;Ralli, Bauman, and Roberts, 1941;Breese, Watkins, and McCoord, 1942;Spector, McKhann, and Meserve, 1943;Popper, Steigmann, and Zevin, 1943;Steigmann and Popper, 1944;Aldersberg and Sobotka, 1944) crease in the plasma vitamin A. In contrast, patient D when first tested had a plasma vitamin A of only 50 i.u.…”