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Meaning of pelagra



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

pelagra
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It is the name of a skin disease caused by inadequate intake of Niacin ( Vitamin B3). It has several symptoms, such as diarrhea, lack of appetite, stomach pain, delusions, weakness and especially desature dermatological ulcers, especially on skin exposed to the sun.

  



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felipe lorenzo del rio

From Italian pelle agra, sour or perhaps rough skin and this from Latin pellis aegra, sick skin. Skin disease with discoloration and roughness especially in areas exposed to the sun with digestive and nervous alterations, caused by the lack or poor digestive absorption of niacin, of the vitamin group B . It has also been called rose sick, Asturian leprosy, Lombardy leprosy, scurvy from the Alps. . .

  

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Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

Pellagra: Jesus said is skin infection due to lack of vitamin b-1

  










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