Recallab › Question bank › Biochemistry › Nutrition
Nutrition questions for NEET PG
23 Nutrition questions from the Biochemistry section of the Recallab bank, each with a verified answer, every option explained and a reference to a current edition. 3 are published in full below.
- A 30-year-old woman on a restricted diet has angular stomatitis, cheilosis, a smooth magenta tongue and fine vascularisation of the cornea. Which laboratory test best confirms the suspected…
- A 3-year-old boy is brought with difficulty seeing after dusk. Examination shows dry, lustreless conjunctivae with a foamy triangular patch temporal to the cornea. The cornea is clear. What is the…
- A 48-year-old man who drinks heavily is admitted confused. He has horizontal nystagmus and cannot abduct either eye, and his gait is unsteady. Arterial lactate is 6.5 mmol/L with a normal blood…
- A 34-year-old man has been on isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol for three months. He now has burning and tingling in both feet, with reduced ankle jerks and impaired vibration sense…
- Several villagers whose staple food is maize develop a symmetrical scaly rash on the face, neck and backs of the hands, along with diarrhoea and forgetfulness. A neighbouring village eating sorghum…
- A 58-year-old man with obstructive jaundice from a pancreatic head mass has easy bruising. Prothrombin time is 22 seconds (control 13) and aPTT is mildly prolonged. After three daily doses of…
- A 62-year-old woman with a macrocytic anaemia and paraesthesiae in both feet is started on folic acid 5 mg daily before her vitamin B12 result returns. Her haemoglobin improves, but over the next two…
- A 9-year-old boy from a low-income household has rough, dry skin with horny follicular papules over the extensor surfaces of both elbows and knees, giving a toad-skin feel. He also complains of…
- Pellagra is common in communities whose staple is sorghum, even though sorghum contains adequate niacin and tryptophan. What is the accepted biochemical explanation?
- A woman whose first child was born with a lumbosacral meningomyelocele is planning another pregnancy. What dose of folic acid should she take, and when should it start?
- A child who eats several raw eggs daily develops thinning hair, a scaly perioral rash and lethargy. Which vitamin is deficient, which protein causes it, and what class of enzyme does that vitamin…