Q: About Micronutrients and pregnancy


 

A very anxious 30 year-old female patient goes  to your office because she is late 10 days.  The patient tells you that she is trying to have a baby,  since in a former pregnancy, two years ago, she lost a baby that was born with anencephaly. You indicate pregnancy tests but they do not confirm pregnancy.

Even when the pregnancy test were negatives, which of the following micronutrients you should prescribe to this patient?

 

a)     Ascorbate

 

b)     Calcium

 

c)      Cianocobalamine

 

d)     Folate

 

e)     Iron

 

f)       Niacin

 

g)     Riboflavin

 

h)    Vitamin A

 

i)       Vitamin D

 

j)       Vitamin E

 

k)     Vitamin K

 

Q: About Vitamins and NTD


 

Nutrition Question N-05

 

 

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A very anxious 30 year-old female patient go to your office because she is late 7 days. Pregnancy tests confirm pregnancy. The patient tells you that in a former pregnancy, she had a fetus with anencephaly. Which of the following vitamins you indicate to the patient that she should begin to take immediately for avoiding a Neural Tube Defect?

 

a)     Ascorbic acid

 

b)     Folic Acid

 

c)      Lipoic acid

 

d)     Nicotinic acid

 

e)     Panthotenic acid