Dangerous medieval disease is making a comeback due to modern diet
Dangerous medieval disease is making a comeback due to modern dietSymptoms may appear as soon as one month after starting a vitamin C deficiency diet. Scurvy, which was widespread between the 16th and 18th centuries, is making a comeback due to the modern crisis of nutrition and the cost of living. According to Sky News, Australian doctors are sounding the alarm.
The disease is directly linked to a deficiency (deficiency) of vitamin C in the human body. For this reason, scurvy was common among sailors who had nutritional problems due to long stays at sea in the 16th and 18th centuries. Now, according to doctors, the old disease is gaining momentum again for a number of understandable reasons.
These include the crisis of the cost of living (high food prices), obesity and the consumption of ultra-processed foods (the characteristics of modern nutrition). The Times gives the example of a middle-aged man who was admitted to a hospital in Perth (Western Australia).
The patient had "mysterious" symptoms: a painful rash and bruises on his legs. A thorough examination, in particular blood tests and scans, initially baffled the doctors; the results ruled out diseases and infections they knew about. But a few days later it turned out that the man, as a rule, ate highly processed foods and almost no fruits and vegetables. As a result, he was diagnosed with scurvy. Without proper treatment, this dangerous disease can be fatal - a person dies, in particular, from bleeding.
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