Permanent visual loss due to dietary vitamin A deficiency in an autistic adolescent

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.. *Permanent visual loss due to dietary vitamin A deficiency in an

autistic adolescent*

McAbee GN, Prieto DM, Kirby J, Santilli AM, Setty R.

Wood School of Medicine

J Child Neurol. 2009 Oct;24(10):1288-9.

$ http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/24/10/1288

Children with autism often have restrictive diets. Here, we report an

adolescent with autism who developed dietary vitamin A deficiency

because of a restrictive diet. Despite supplementation with vitamin A,

some of the visual loss was permanent with optic atrophy. Children with

autism who have restrictive diets may need periodic serum vitamin levels

assessed.

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