Fussy eaters could be faced with blindness – Vitamin A deficiency

Chan Moore was a young boy who started to lose his vision.

Australian mum Kerry Moore had tried ophthalmologists and pediatricians, a children’s hospital and an adult hospital, light tests, genetic tests and various vision tests in trying to find the cause of her son’s encroaching blindness.

The reality was that A diet of hot chips, Coke, and little else nearly blinded Cian Moore.

Since he was five or six, Cian’s fussy eating habits – nothing except chicken, potatoes, dry bread and Coke – had left him so malnourished he was going blind.

This poor nutrition resulting in loss of vision however was missed because a Ian and other patients did not look skinny or malnourished, and specialists had not thought to ask them about their diet, Watson said.

“It’s something about this combination of chips and Coke that you don’t get your nutrients, but you feel full.”
Vitamin A deficiency is the most common form of malnutrition leading to blindness worldwide, but it is rare in Australia.

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