![]() I felt a lot of guilt around that because I thought, I’ve been to one of the most prestigious medical schools in Edinburgh, I’ve got an immunology degree, specialist exams, GP exams, with all those so-called ticks, but I wasn’t able to protect my own son from getting really sick from a preventable vitamin deficiency. “It was pivotal for me, because not only was that the scariest thing to happen to any parent – we didn’t know whether he would make it that night, we thought we might lose him – but ultimately he nearly died from a preventable vitamin deficiency. ![]() Essentially, he’d had a convulsion because of low levels of calcium in his blood, which we found out later was secondary to low levels of vitamin D. “When we got there, the medical staff were clearly really worried and put lines in his neck. They made the hazardous car journey in the snow to hospital. “He’d been very phlegmy that day, so I turned him on his front and tried thumping him on his back to clear his airway, as I thought he might be choking, but nothing was happening,” Chatterjee (43) recalls. She had my son in her arms and said, ‘Rangan, he’s stopped moving’. I was in the kitchen when my wife called out to me. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. ![]() “We went on holiday one Christmas to Chamonix. ![]() ![]() WHEN bestselling author, podcaster, GP and TV medical expert Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s six-month-old son nearly died on a family holiday in France, it changed his approach towards medicine. ![]()
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