During pregnancy, deficiency of which vitamin in women causes neural tube defect in the newborn: March 2010: (A) Thiamine, (B) Pyridoxine, (C) Folic acid, (D) Cyanocobalamin
Answer is C. Ans. C: Folk acid Deficiency of : Thiamine causes Ben Beni, neuritis Pyridoxine causes Convulsion, hyperirritability Folic acid causes sprue, Anemia and neural tube defect in the newborn born to folate-deficient mothers Cyanocobalamin causes pernicious anemia, loss of vibration and position sense, dementia, abnormal gait