How Painful is Scurvy? Exploring the Severity of Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms
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Historically, scurvy was a devastating disease that could render individuals completely incapacitated, largely due to excruciating pain in their muscles and joints. The answer to how painful is scurvy is that it causes significant and widespread physical agony that progresses from general aches to severe, localized tenderness as the deficiency worsens.