Carotinaemia

Almond, Solomon; Logan, R. F. L.

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“…Food rationing during the Second World War forced the public to consume large quantities of carrots and swedes, which were nutritious and inexpensive. It was than found to be transferred to infants by breast‐feeding 4 . During the 1970s carotenoderma was observed in many Japanese infants and in children who consumed high amounts of tangerines or tangerine juice 5 .…”

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Carotenoderma – a review of the current literature

2003

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“…Many case reports have referred to an excessive consumption of such foods (Hess & Myers, 1919;McGill, 1922;Rabinovitch, 1928;Levin & Silvers, 1931;Josephs, 1939;Almond & Logan, 1942;Abrahamson & Abrahamson, 1962). There are a number of reports (Almond & Logan, 1942;Abrahamson & Abrahamson, 1962) of 'normal' subjects who developed hypercarotenaemia as a result of excessive consumption of carotene-containing foods. In particular Dagadu & Gillman (1963) reported a high incidence of hypercarotenaemia in Ghanians and related this to dietary factors, and Ross & Parker (1962) have commented that serum carotene levels in the general population fluctuate with the seasonal variations of availability of carotene-containing foods.…”

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Hypercarotenaemia as a symptom of weight phobiaThis study was conducted while the authors were working in the Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital, London, W.1.

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Stonehill

1967

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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“…A further interesting case followed Lord Wootton's appeal t o the public to eat more carrots during the Second World War (Almond & Logan, 1942). A healthy woman ate large quantities of carrots for the last six months of her pregnancy in order to increase her vitamin intake.…”

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Carotenaemia in Infancy

Massam¹,

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1981

Int J Food Sci Nutr

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The condition of carotenaemia is harmless but can lead t o the mistaken diagnosis of jaundice; it may also be a feature in hypothyroidism. A case of carotenaemia in a baby is reported, caused by an excess of carrots in his mixed feeds, and the diagnostic features are emphasised.Case report S.M. aged seven and a half months had been a full-term baby, delivered normally at a maternity hospital, with Apgars of 9 at 1 min and 10 at 5 min. His birth weight was 6 lb 12 oz (3.06 kg) and jaundice was not noted during the neonatal period. He was breast-fed and had been found t o be normal at the welfare clinic, which he attended regularly.At five months of age and weighing 1 7 lb (7.7 11 kg), the baby was introduced t o mixed feeding, on which he continued t o thrive. Two months later, however, his parents noticed that he was becoming pigmented, as if 'suntanned'. The discolouration was first noticed on his face but slowly spread to other parts of his body. As the child had not been exposed t o the sun, his parents consulted their family doctor, who referred the child to hospital.There the mother explained that she had heard that carrots 'stopped night blindness' and had therefore decided to wean him using carrot puree. She gave him a measured quantity of carrots daily (Y2 lb, 0.227 kg raw weight), which was divided amongst his meals of breast milk and rusk and encouragingly he seemed to enjoy this altered diet.On examination he was found to be a happy, healthy baby, who had reached his normal milestones. He had a generalised orangey pigmentation which spared the sclera and his urine was of normal colour. There were no other physical signs and his weight was 21 Ib (9.525 kg).The characteristic sign of this disorder is a bright orange (carroty) pigmentation of the mucosa and skin. The colour is especially dark in the horny layers of skin on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. Whilst this is a reliable sign in an adult it is of course absent in an infant. As the sclera are spared discolouration, this condition cannot be confused with jaundice in which the sclera are always affected.The diagnosis was confirmed in this baby by measuring his total carotenoids as 0-carotene. The reference range for total carotenoids is 0.9 -3.7 pmol/l and in him they were raised t o 17 pmol/l. His serum bilirubin was normal at 4 pmol/l (normal range 0 -17 pmol/l). 218Int J Food Sci Nutr Downloaded from informahealthcare.com by University of Auckland on 11/05/14For personal use only.

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Carotinaemia

Cited by 32 publications

References 3 publications

Carotenoderma – a review of the current literature

Carotenoderma – a review of the current literature

Hypercarotenaemia as a symptom of weight phobiaThis study was conducted while the authors were working in the Academic Department of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital, London, W.1.

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