The main symptoms of vitamin E deficiency are anemia from break down of red blood cells and nonspecific problems with the nervous system. The deficiency may contribute to problems in the retina of the eye in premature infants and to some cases of bleeding in the brain in newborns-affected premature newborns have muscle weakness. In children, chronic liver and gall bladder disease causes nerve disorder, incl loss of normal gait, loss of vibration and position senses, paralysis of the eye muscles, body muscle weakness, drooping eyelids and poor vocalisation. In adults with malabsorption, vitamin E deficiency very rarely causes problems with normal gait because adults have large vitamin E stores in the fat tissue of their body.
Attribution: Avallain