Diabetic renal disease: differences between Asian and white patients.

A case of scurvy Sporadic cases of scurvy may continue to occur despite improved standards ofliving and food supply.Those at risk include people living alone and those with peculiar dietary habits, which are often taken to relieve symptoms.We. report a case of scurvy in a young man whose diet' was severely deficient in vitamin C as a result ofexclusions devised to prevent alleged hypersensitivity to food.Current lay enthusm for dietary treatment of a great variety of symptoms may well lead to an increase in this type ofdeficiency.t2Case report A 28 year old man, educationally below average, presented as an.emergency with alas, immobility, andarash.Threeyearsprei0ouslyhehadbeenrefxred for investigation of epilepsy, which had been diagilosed 14 years before.His parents, with whom he lived, had become convinced that his fits were due to food allergy, which they also blamed for his intermittent attacks of flatulence.Temporal lobe epilepsy had been diagnosed, and concurrent investigation for coeliac disease (including small intestinal biopsy).yieldednegative results- He was advised to eat normally, but his parents remained determined to pwve . .i . .; -. .