Artikel om att Barlow's disease/skörbjugg kan förväxlas med "shaken baby", publicerad i Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 2004.
http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/clemetson.pdf
"
Retinal petechiae,
subdural hemorrhages, and even
broken
bones do not always indicate trauma or child abuse. Infantile scurvy
or a variant form still occurs today and can be mistakenly
diagnosed as nonaccidental injury (NAI). Histamine levels, which
are characteristically increased in vitamin C depletion, may reach a
toxic level owing to infection or the injection of foreign proteins.
Histamine intoxication can cause a variant of Barlow’s disease, with
weakness of the retinal vessels and the bridging veins and venules
between the brain and the dura mater in infants."
...
"In the first 75 years of the 20 century, Barlow’s disease–with
bruises, broken bones, and sores that would not heal–was a wellrecognized
condition in the Western world, affecting bottle-fed
infants whose mothers did not know or could not afford to provide
orange juice as a supplement to the milk diet... Today the diagnosis may be missed partly because of the belief that vitamin C deficiency could not possibly occur in our
modern world.
Scurvy also occurred
in the infants of more affluent mothers who boiled cow’s milk to be
sure of destroying all tuberculosis bacteria."
...
Kommentar: Vi vet inte vad H fick för pulver egentligen. Kan iaf inte se i FUP att innehållet varken hittats eller analyserats.
"Clearly, histaminemia from any cause will be added to the
histaminemia of ascorbate depletion and could cause
subdural
hemorrhages,
retinal petechiae, and
bruising elsewhere–so easily
mistaken for child abuse."
...
"The probability of Barlow’s disease can be increased by
maternal malnutrition, by hyperemesis gravidarum (excessive
vomiting in pregnancy)".
Kommentar till sista citatet: detta har ju E framhållit i förhör, att hon knappt fick behålla något under graviditeten.
I kombination med det vi vet om att A och E felnärde H förefaller det ju inte som en otrolig differentialdiagnos. Man undrar om - som artikelförfattaren efterlyser i slutet av artikeln –*nivåerna av histamin och askorbinsyra H:s blod analyserats?
"No one should ever be accused of inflicting shaken-baby
syndrome unless analyses for plasma ascorbic acid and blood
histamine have been performed and can be placed in evidence."
Och hur snabbt en bebis kan utveckla Barlow's/skörbjugg? Uppenbarligen så tidigt att det kan förväxlas med "shaken baby".