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
    41·
    1 month 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·
      30 days 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·
        30 days 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·
          30 days 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