{"id":620041,"date":"2026-09-10T05:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620041\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T05:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T05:16:31","slug":"boy-died-of-scurvy-after-taking-multivitamin-that-contained-no-vitamin-c-coroner-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620041\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy died of scurvy after taking &#8216;multivitamin&#8217; that contained no vitamin C, coroner finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A six-year-old died from complications linked to scurvy\u00a0after doctors had advised his parents to give him a multivitamin \u2014 only for it to later emerge that the alleged multivitamin they used contained no vitamin C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connor Dean, who had trisomy 21, had developed increasingly restricted eating from around the age of five, with his diet eventually consisting mainly of white bread, sausage, chocolate and custard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His paediatrician became concerned in May 2023 after he gained just 300g over 11 months and was reportedly no longer eating fruit or vegetables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blood tests revealed deficiencies in iron, vitamin B12, vitamin A and eventually vitamin D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-year-old died from complications linked to scurvy\u00a0after doctors had advised his parents to give him a multivitamin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,61,60,446],"class_list":["post-620041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}