Aussie doctors blame rare scurvy case on cost-of-living crisis
The patient, whose medical history was complicated, was skipping meals and eating mainly processed food.
A WA man who could not afford nutritious food or his prescribed vitamin supplements has landed in hospital with scurvy, doctors say.
The patient had a complex medical history, having undergone a sleeve gastrectomy eight years earlier, and diagnoses of grand mal epilepsy, iron-deficiency anaemia, hepatic steatosis, hyperlipidaemia, asthma and vitamin D deficiency.
