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Permanent Visual Loss Due to Dietary Vitamin A Deficiency in an Autistic Adolescent

Gary N. McAbee, DO, JD

Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Child Neurology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Children's Regional Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, mcabee-gary{at}cooperhealth.edu

Debra M. Prieto, MD

New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired & Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Virtua Hospital, Voorhees, New Jersey

Janet Kirby, RD, MBA

Pediatric Nutrition, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Children's Regional Hospital, Camden, New Jersey

Ann Marie Santilli, BS

Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Child Neurology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Children's Regional Hospital, Camden, New Jersey

Rajendra Setty, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Children's Regional Hospital, Camden, New Jersey

Children with autism often have restrictive diets. Here, we report an adolescent with autism who developed dietary vitamin A deficiency because of a restrictive diet. Despite supplementation with vitamin A, some of the visual loss was permanent with optic atrophy. Children with autism who have restrictive diets may need periodic serum vitamin levels assessed.

Key Words: vitamin A deficiency • autism • diet

This version was published on October 1, 2009

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 24, No. 10, 1288-1289 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809333541
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