Women decide to lose weight and take too much vitamin A because it tastes so good.
In Lvov, 13-year-old twin girls lost their hair due to an overdose of vitamin A, and the skin began to peel off their bodies. This was reported to the West Ukrainian Specialized Medical Children’s Center.
According to the girls’ mother, it all started when the siblings decided to lose weight. Mom helped them eat right. Soon, the woman noticed that her daughters became withdrawn and reluctant to talk. Mom decided that the girls miss their father, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The woman also thought that her daughters were deficient in vitamins due to the change in diet.
On the advice of a doctor, the mother began to give the girls vitamin A brought from abroad in the form of bears. The sisters used it in large quantities and had serious consequences. At first, the woman miscalculated the dose. Vitamins turned out to be delicious – the girls used them secretly from their mother all summer.
“It turned out that the children were taking an amount of the vitamin for a long time, which was 300 times the maximum allowed daily dose for adolescence,” the hospital said.
Health problems in children begin with peeling skin on the face, neck, hands. Subsequently, the hair began to fall out, until complete baldness. Also, the sisters began to suffer from severe pains in the head and feet.
One of the doctors, to whom the family turned, said that the girls could be left without hair forever.
However, they were helped by specialists from the West Ukrainian Children’s Medical Center.
“The girls at the time of treatment were in poor condition, with signs of inflammatory changes in the tests. Doctors of the pediatric department suspected the toxic effect of an unknown substance. After all, the same girls have the same clinical picture, similar to poisoning. We conducted tests for trace elements that can cause alopecia – mercury, lead, arsenic, thallium. But they all turned out to be negative. Understanding that this may be chronic hypervitaminosis of vitamin A came after a thorough examination of the anamnesis, ” said Vita Voloshchuk, pediatrician-gastroenterologist of the Center.
Doctors also noticed that long-term overdose of vitamins led to disruption of the liver, signs of osteoporosis appeared, and the psycho-emotional state worsened.
“We were able to stabilize the girls’ condition. However, there is no definitive cure. The treatment for this condition is drug withdrawal and recovery time,” said Vita Voloshchuk.
Girls have started to grow hair.
“The girls are happy, and the mother is still a little worried. She is afraid that the excitement for her father, who was wounded at the front, will bring back problems. However, our experts assure that this will not happen. Then of all, Alopecia in girls has completely different causes,” they said at the hospital.
Earlier, five patients were saved in Lviv thanks to a posthumous donor.
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Source: korrespondent
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