Abstract
BackgroundVitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin; vitamin D is essential to sustain health and it protects against osteoporosis. It is crucial to the human body’s physiology in terms of muscular movement and neurological signal transmission, and to the immune system in defense against invading pathogens.Case presentationThis was a case of a 26-year-old Sudanese woman who presented with a 2-year history of anosmia, recurrent nasal polyps, back pain, and chronic fatigue. She was diagnosed as having a case of vitamin D deficiency and responded well to treatment.ConclusionThere is an association between vitamin D deficiency and recurrent allergic nasal conditions.
Highlights
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin; vitamin D is essential to sustain health and it protects against osteoporosis
At the 6 months follow-up, her blood level of vitamin D was normal, she described her condition as free from all symptoms, and she returned back to normal physical activity. This was a non-classical case of vitamin D deficiency of a 26-year-old woman who presented with chronic anosmia and recurrent nasal polyps
She was diagnosed as having a case of vitamin D deficiency and responded well to vitamin D replacement therapy. This case correlated an association between decreased levels of vitamin D and recurrent nasal polyps that led in time to chronic anosmia as a result of chronic high sensitivity reactions triggered by our patient’s autoimmune system
Summary
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin; vitamin D is essential to sustain health and it protects against osteoporosis. * Correspondence: drmuhanadkamal@hotmail.com 1Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ibn Sina University, Khartoum, Sudan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article have been widely accepted. An imaging profile included lumbosacral MRI, a computed tomography (CT) scan of her sinuses, and electrocardiogram (ECG), which were normal except for bilateral nasal polyps and severe sinusitis that looked allergic to fungi in nature.She underwent FESS surgery to remove the polyps and clean out her sinuses; up to 6 weeks after surgery she used nasal steroids (mometasone furoate 0.005%) two times a day, but her symptoms regarding anosmia were not improved.
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