Australian man diagnosed with scurvy, a disease doctors 'thought we had eradicated'
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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.

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Doctors put him on a dose of 100 milligrams of vitamin C per day, as well as folic acid and multivitamins.

    “He also started eating a lemon daily,”

    Makes my teeth hurt