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Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report
Pediatric scurvy is uncommon in the twenty-first century but cases have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental issues and restricted diets. We are reporting a two-year and nine-month-old boy who had a coronavirus disease (COVID) infection and then presented with a refusal to walk. By care...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37292550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38687 |
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author | Jafri, Aleena Edwards, Olayinka Gupta, Puneet Abdul-Aziz, Rabheh |
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description | Pediatric scurvy is uncommon in the twenty-first century but cases have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental issues and restricted diets. We are reporting a two-year and nine-month-old boy who had a coronavirus disease (COVID) infection and then presented with a refusal to walk. By careful history-taking, he was found to have a restricted diet, speech delay, and gum bleeding suggestive of scurvy, which was confirmed by extremely low levels of ascorbic acid. In this case, the diagnosis of scurvy was established before establishing the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay. Treatment with ascorbic acid resulted in a remarkable improvement in his symptoms. This case highlights the importance of collecting a thorough history, connecting exam findings to the history, and including scurvy in differential diagnoses for the presentation of inability to bear weight. |
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spelling | pubmed-102444912023-06-08 Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report Jafri, Aleena Edwards, Olayinka Gupta, Puneet Abdul-Aziz, Rabheh Cureus Pediatrics Pediatric scurvy is uncommon in the twenty-first century but cases have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental issues and restricted diets. We are reporting a two-year and nine-month-old boy who had a coronavirus disease (COVID) infection and then presented with a refusal to walk. By careful history-taking, he was found to have a restricted diet, speech delay, and gum bleeding suggestive of scurvy, which was confirmed by extremely low levels of ascorbic acid. In this case, the diagnosis of scurvy was established before establishing the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay. Treatment with ascorbic acid resulted in a remarkable improvement in his symptoms. This case highlights the importance of collecting a thorough history, connecting exam findings to the history, and including scurvy in differential diagnoses for the presentation of inability to bear weight. Cureus 2023-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10244491/ /pubmed/37292550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38687 Text en Copyright © 2023, Jafri et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Jafri, Aleena Edwards, Olayinka Gupta, Puneet Abdul-Aziz, Rabheh Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title | Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title_full | Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title_short | Scurvy in a Pediatric Patient Unable to Bear Weight: A Case Report |
title_sort | scurvy in a pediatric patient unable to bear weight: a case report |
topic | Pediatrics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244491/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37292550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38687 |
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