Vitamin E serves as antioxidant to protect the integrity of membrane.
Vitamin E deficiency probelms include white muscle disease, exudative diathesis and encephalomalacia. All these problems occur in the young growing animals. Yes, you guessed it right. Deficiency in the mother made their young susceptible to the deficiency. White muscle disease is caused by degeneration of skeletal and heart muscle fiber, which leads to rapid death due to heart failure.