Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency disease that plagued sailors and pirates centuries ago, appears to be re-emerging thanks to the rising cost of living and the popularity of weight loss surgery, ...

Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency disease that plagued sailors centuries ago, appears to be re-emerging thanks to the rising cost of living and the popularity of weight loss surgery, a new study finds.

Takeaways. A lack of vitamin C causes scurvy, which leads to symptoms such as fatigue, bleeding gums, bruising, and slow wound healing. You can avoid it by eating vitamin C-rich foods including ...

Scurvy, caused by a vitamin C deficiency, is back in the news following the hospital admission of a 51-year-old Australian man who presented with an acute case of the condition that, ...

Scurvy is caused by a severe vitamin C deficiency. It can lead to anemia, exhaustion, bleeding, swelling in some parts of the body, ulcerated gums, and loss of teeth.

The scourge of scurvy, which is caused by vitamin C deficiency, may be re-emerging amid the cost of living crisis and the rise in weight loss (bariatric) surgery, suggest doctors in the journal ...

Why are cases on the rise? With "abundant vitamin C in our modern food supply" scurvy had been considered an archaic disease, and often slipped under the radar of doctors, wrote Professor Lauren ...

While rates of scurvy are nowhere near as high as they once were, the vitamin C deficiency best known for plaguing sailors during long voyages is still around. When cases do emerge, they can offer ...

Scurvy is eminently treatable, but because it's a disease of the past, first associated with sailors during the Renaissance era, it may be mistaken for other conditions, especially inflamed blood ...

A U.S. analysis of more than 19,000 hospitalized pediatric patients, published in July, found the rate of new scurvy cases more than tripled over the five-year period of 2016-2020 to 26.7 cases ...

Storrs's scurvy was much less severe than the case discussed in the recent The BMJ paper. In the latter, a middle-aged man's legs were covered with tiny, painful red-brown spots, resembling a rash.