Vitamin A toxicity, also called hypervitaminosis A, is a serious and even life-threatening condition. It is mainly due to excessive dietary intake in animal foods (liver, fish oil), fortified foods, and sometimes drug supplements (10,000-50,000 IU per capsule). There has been isolated cases of drug overdoses including a recent deliberate ingestion of several capsules of vitamin A in the county. The fact that the supplements are widely and freely available in most health facilities makes it a drug of toxicological importance.
Being fat-soluble and inefficiently eliminated, vitamin A bioaccumulates in the . . .
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