This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Levels of Prevention of Disease, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
[{'content': 'Vitamin A prophylaxisis is :- \nSelect and explain. \nA. Specific protection, B. Health promotion, C. Secondary prevention, D. Primordial prevention', 'role': 'user'}, {'content': 'Answer: A \nExplanation: - Vitamin A Prophylaxis is given before the disease has occurred to children at-risk. So, it is a primary prevention. - Since, it is specific to prevention of Vitamin A deficiency blindness, it is specific protection. - All vaccines, prophylaxis comes under primary prevention i.e specific protection of the disease. Prophylactic dose- Under the new recent guidelines in NIS, vitamin -A is given: GROUP DOSE 6 months - 1 year of age 1 lakh IU orally 1 - 6 years of age 2 lakh IU orally All of the early stages of xerophthalmia can be reversed by administration of a massive dose (200,000 IU or 110 mg ofretinol palmitate) orally on two successive days.', 'role': 'assistant'}]