This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Vitamins and Nutritional Deficiencies, Subject name: Social & Preventive Medicine
Acrodermatitis enteropathica is:- 
Select and explain. 
A. Inherited disorder of excessive excretion of zinc from body, B. Inherited disorder of impaired uptake of zinc from body, C. Inherited disorder of excessive excretion of copper from body, D. Inherited disorder of impaired uptake of copper from body
B: Inherited disorder of impaired uptake of zinc from body
Answer: B: Inherited disorder of impaired uptake of zinc from body 
Explanation: - Acrodermatitis enteropathica is Inherited disorder of impaired uptake of zinc from body. - Zn deficiency results in impaired glucose metabolism. B2 deficiency (ocular) Vitamin B6 deficiency Vitamin E deficiency Chromium deficiency EFA deficiency leads to Selenium deficiency Increase circumcorneal congestion Seizures (infant) Progressive external opthalmoplegia Glucose Intolerance PHRYNODERMA (Toad like skin) ENDEMIC cardiomyopathy (KESHAN'S disease)