Australian man diagnosed with scurvy, a disease doctors 'thought we had eradicated'
www.abc.net.au
Doctors say scurvy, best associated with sailors' lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on long sea voyages, is a "re-emerging diagnosis" — partly due to cost-of-living pressures.

The cost-of-living squeeze and poor diets are putting people at a higher risk of developing scurvy, with a case caused by an acute vitamin C deficiency recently treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.

  • Smol LadyEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I looked up why scurvy kind of went away and it’s bc you get vitamin c in potatoes which made so much sense bc who doesn’t love potatoes

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Even before potatoes, scurvy was rare to the point of being almost unknown on land, simply because it is such a hard disease to get. You don’t need a lot of Vitamin C to stave off scurvy, and just about anything that isn’t ‘grain and preserved meat’ has SOME vitamin c in it.

      • Smol LadyEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Yeah something tells me this isn’t so much a “cost of living thing”, junk food is more expensive then vegetables these days

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 months ago

          Even potato chips contain enough Vitamin C to stave off scurvy. It is a hard disease to get. The guy in the article sounds like he had other deficiencies too, so it might’ve been a cost of living situation for him, legitimately, but scurvy alone is something you have to work to get. Like ‘meat-only diet’ level malnutrition.

          • Smol LadyEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I thought for a second that couldn’t be the case bc mikaela peterson is on a carnivore diet but she’s probably rich enough to afford all kinds of supplements