Scurvy in adolescence

Scurvy nowadays is an epidemic disease in underdeveloped areas of the world, where poverty, wars, and great migrations are producing situations of malnutrition. It is a rare disease in developed countries and appears sporadically: in the elderly who live alone, sometimes associated with chronic alco...

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Published inJournal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 118 - 120
Main Authors Gomez-Carrasco, J.A, Lopez-Herce Cid, J, Bernabe de Frutos, C, Ripalda-Crespo, M.J, Garcis de Frias, J.E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hagerstown, MD Lippincott-Raven Publishers 01.07.1994
Lippincott
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ACIDE ASCORBIQUE
ACIDO ASCORBICO
Ascorbic Acid - blood
Ascorbic Acid - therapeutic use
Ascorbic Acid - urine
Ascorbic Acid Deficiency - complications
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Diet
DIETA
ENFERMEDADES CARENCIALES
Female
Fruit
Gingivitis - etiology
Grief
Humans
INGESTION DE NUTRIENTES
INGESTION DE SUBSTANCES NUTRITIVES
JEUNESSE
JUVENTUD
MALADIE DE CARENCE
MALNUTRICION
MALNUTRITION
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...)
REGIME ALIMENTAIRE
Scurvy - diagnosis
Scurvy - drug therapy
Scurvy - etiology
Spain
Vegetables
Spain
Human
Case study
Scorbutus
Ascorbic acid
Nutrition disorder
Adolescent
Vitamin deficiency
Nutritional status
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Summary:Scurvy nowadays is an epidemic disease in underdeveloped areas of the world, where poverty, wars, and great migrations are producing situations of malnutrition. It is a rare disease in developed countries and appears sporadically: in the elderly who live alone, sometimes associated with chronic alcoholism, in infants with prolonged artificial feeding without a complementary diet, and in a miscellaneous group of patients with unusual diets, some of whom have psychiatric problems (6). It is exceptional in teenagers and adolescents because it requires a very prolonged diet without fruits and vegetables. Our patient is an adolescent who developed scurvy in its classic adult form. We have found only two references to this disease in this group of patients in developed countries in the last 10 years. We regard the adolescence as a period of greater risk due to the frequency of behavioral nutritional problems
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ISSN:0277-2116
1536-4801
DOI:10.1097/00005176-199407000-00021