While you might associate scurvy with the Victorian times, it actually still poses a risk. According to Superdrug's Pharmacy ...

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. This was suggested by doctors in ...

An urgent warning has been issued by a leading pharmacist as cases of a disease more commonly linked with 18th Century sailors are reportedly on the rise in parts of France and Wales. Superdrug's ...

the vitamin deficiency is experiencing a resurgence. Scurvy is a condition caused by a lack of vitamin C, a "very key nutrient for the human body" which helps protect cells and support proper ...

Over the next century, what we now know as vitamin C became one of the most popular drugs in human history. Why is this molecule so well-known? Apart from its deficiency causing scurvy in humans ...

Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency. In such a situation, consume more and more fruits rich in vitamin C. In which consume citrus fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet peppers and amla, although ...

The fine line between beneficial and harmful While vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, a condition virtually eliminated in developed countries, excessive supplementation creates its own set of ...

Niamh said: “Scurvy is a disease caused by a Vitamin C deficiency and is associated with British sailors in the 18th Century who suffered from this disease as they didn’t have access to fresh ...

Cases of scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, are rising among children and young people in Wales, a doctor has warned. Dana Beasley, Wales deputy officer at the Royal College of ...

Between the 16th and 18th centuries alone, an estimated 2,000,000 sailors died of scurvy. A Scottish physician cracked the code in the 1700s, finding a deficiency in Vitamin C came from a lack of ...

Cases of scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, are rising among children and young people in Wales, a doctor has warned. Dana Beasley, Wales deputy officer at the Royal College of ...