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.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Christ people, eat some potatoes or some onions. My diet is pure dogshit and I still manage to not get scurvy. It’s a HARD disease to get. Other nutritional deficiencies are much easier to accidentally come across.

    Didn’t know bariatric surgery was a risk factor though, that’s interesting.