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Malnutrition and skin disease in Far East prisoners-of-war in World War II.
Identifier
027371
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Healing because by knowing it is vitamin deficiency one can heal the skin disease by simply giving the person foods with vitamin B2
A description of the experience
Clin Exp Dermatol. 2018 May 31. doi: 10.1111/ced.13637. [Epub ahead of print]
Malnutrition and skin disease in Far East prisoners-of-war in World War II.
Creamer D1.
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Abstract
During the Second World War, thousands of captured British and Commonwealth troops were interned in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps in the Far East. Imprisonment was extremely harsh, and prisoners developed multiple pathologies induced by physical hardship, tropical infections and starvation. Immediately after the war, several POW doctors published their clinical experiences, including reports of skin disease caused by malnutrition. The most notable deficiency dermatoses seen in Far East POWs were ariboflavinosis (vitamin B2 or riboflavin deficiency) and pellagra (vitamin B3 or niacin deficiency). A lack of vitamin B2 produces a striking inflammatory disorder of scrotal skin. Reports of pellagra in POWs documented a novel widespread eruption, developing into exfoliative dermatitis, in addition to the usual photosensitive dermatosis. A review of the literature from 70 years ago provides a reminder of the skin's response to malnutrition.
PMID:
29855062
The source of the experience
PubMedConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
DermatitisEczema
Psoriasis
Skin diseases
Suppressions
NiacinRiboflavin
Vitamin B2
Vitamin B3