French fries, sausage, white bread: a Teenager eats only fast food – now he is blind

French fries, Chips, sausage, white bread – over the years, the diet of a 17-year-old British state. How much he’s hurting his body, noticed the Teenager, however, until it was too late and he went blind. Previously, Doctors had found severe vitamin deficiencies.

As a medic in the journal "Annals of Interal Medicine" reports, he was already under medical treatment for years. Diagnosis: a so-called optical neuropathy in which the optic nerve is increasingly attacked.

A Teenager is not taking prescribed tablets

With 14 years the Boy had visited his family doctor for the first time due to fatigue and malaise. This is to found in him a serious Vitamin B12 deficiency and then vitamin tablets have been prescribed for you. Despite his critical condition of the Teenager is not a took the pills, however.

Years later, he is said to have turned to Doctors from Bristol: He was always worse to see. In addition to the already previously diagnosed Vitamin B12 deficiency, were the physicians, now that him in addition to important substances, such as selenium, or Vitamin D of life were missing.

The optic nerve is already so damaged that a Briton for "Blind" was declared

His eyesight had gone back to that time in so far that the Teenager was declared blind. His condition had even shocked the Doctors.