Boy, 8, left permanently blind after fussy eating habits saw him eat nothing but chicken nuggets, sausages and biscuits

AN eight-year-old kid is present permanently unsighted aft his picky eating habits near him severely malnourished.

The schoolboy, from Malaysia, lived connected thing but chicken nuggets, sausages, and cookies since helium was a baby.

He was severely lacking successful a captious vitamin needed to support his optic nerves healthy, according to a doc who shared the communicative connected Facebook, past week.

The nightmare started successful 2nd people successful Kuala Lumpur erstwhile the lad cried out, "Teacher, wherefore can't I spot anything?"

He was rushed to the infirmary and diagnosed with terrible vitamin A deficiency.

In the UK, astir 1 successful 10 radical mightiness person a mild vitamin A deficiency, though terrible cases are beauteous rare.

Vitamin A helps marque rhodopsin, a macromolecule successful the retina that helps with imaginativeness successful debased light.

The lad had apt suffered from optic neuropathy, a information wherever the optic nervus wastes distant owed to a deficiency of the vitamin.

The illness causes a painless alteration successful imaginativeness but if caught early, tin beryllium treated with dietary supplements to replenish the missing nutrients.

However, if near untreated oregon not instantly it tin pb to optic nerve atrophy, which cannot beryllium reversed.

Dr Erna Nadia, a Malay societal media doctor, wrote successful a post: "As a mother. we can't ever navigator due to the fact that we are busy, pity for the parents of this student, it is not casual for them to accept".

She’s urging parents to ticker for signs of vitamin A deficiency, similar adust eyes, grey spots connected the whites of the eyes, nighttime blindness, oregon teardrop accumulation issues.

"I'm sharing not to condemn anyone," she added, "I'm sharing arsenic a reminder for myself due to the fact that I don't navigator mundane either.

"Let's effort including a steadfast paper and eating the close nutrient each day."

Foods precocious successful vitamin A see spinach, carrots, mangoes, dairy milk, apricots, fish, chicken, eggs and saccharine potatoes.

The deficiency is sometimes associated with an eating disorder called avoidant restrictive nutrient intake upset (ARFID).

Children with ARFID are highly selective eaters and sometimes person small involvement successful eating food.

They whitethorn devour a constricted assortment of preferred foods, which tin pb to mediocre maturation and mediocre nutrition.

ARFID usually starts astatine younger ages than different eating disorders and is much communal successful boys.

Similar cases, linked to ARFID, person been reported successful the UK and US

Bella Mildon, an autistic kid from the UK, went unsighted successful 2021 aft her constricted fare of Marmite sandwiches, fries, and water.

Medics said the 12-year-old had a vitamin A deficiency.

In 2019, a mum whose lad went unsighted aft lone eating crisps and cocoa spoke to The Sun to rise consciousness of the ARFID.

Kerry James, past 45, was acrophobic erstwhile her teenage son Harvey Dyer, 18, told her helium was incapable to see.

Doctors carried retired tests connected the lad who besides had ARFID and recovered each of his vitamin and mineral levels were dangerously low.

Medics enactment his imaginativeness nonaccomplishment down to a deficiency of nutrition successful his diet.