(1) Of these, 9 children had overt vitamin A deficiency as evident by the presence of xerophthalmia .(2) A guide to their use in the treatment and prevention of vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia .(3) The abundant vitamin A contained in these foods can prevent vision decline and eye diseases like coronal dryness, night blindness and xerophthalmia , another form of dryness in the eye.(4) This product has lost most of its vitamins A and D, which are needed to ward off xerophthalmia (an eye disease) and rickets.(5) In the early 1990s, results from observational studies showed an increased mortality among children with clinical xerophthalmia .
