Hospital doctors and researchers from France’s public health research body (Inserm) and Université Paris Cité analysed trends among nearly 900 children hospitalised with scurvy in France over a nine-year period, until November 2023.
The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, found the biggest increase in cases was among children aged four to 10, and largely those from low-income families.
“There would seem to be a link with poverty,” said Ulrich Meinzer, the study’s coordinator and a paediatrician at Robert-Debré Hospital in Paris.
He underlined that 32.9 percent of the hospitalised children came from families receiving universal medical cover – an indicator of very low income.
“Nurses noted that some of the infected children had not eaten for several days,” Meinzer told French news magazine Le Nouvel Obs.
SCURVY?!
What the actual fuck
It makes a gross kind of sense: the foods with vitamin C are going to be fresh fruits and vegetables. Which are fairly expensive, relative to cheap processed food that doesn’t happen to contain vitamin C.
So, this is about how poor people are getting a disease that’s caused by not being able to buy what is somewhat more expensive foods and sounds properly peak capitalism to me.
Ascorbic acid aka Vitamin C is used in a lot of processed foods as an antioxidant. Just read the ingredients lists of a bunch of processed foods in your household and you will likely find it there.
Put some vitamin c in the processed food ffs
That’d a band-aid solution to cover up deeper problems.
Take from those who have too much and give it to those who have too little. Simple, but effective.
Well, yes. But, immediate and realistic action is more important than the hopes and dreams of an equal society.
Exactly! Vitamin C is dirt fucking cheap. It’s even in fucking Mtn dew of all things. It is not hard to add vitamin C to various cheap foods and drinks.
Of all of the medical problems in the world, scurvy is something that should absolutely happen nowhere.
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Yeah it’s very fucked up.
It’s really weird what things people choose to downvote here. You didn’t even say anything controversial (except a swear. How dare you.)
Mea culpa. I get at least one downvote all the time it seems. Probably a fan.