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Accordingly, what is the Tiny Tim Syndrome?

Rickets is a bone disorder caused by a deficiencyin vitamin D, calcium or phosphate. Lack of these crucial nutrientssoftens the bones, and leg braces would have been the 1840ssolution, Chesney said. Tiny Tim's life in cramped, pollutedLondon would have set him up for both rickets and tuberculosis,Chesney said.

Additionally, why does Tiny Tim have a crutch? At the end of the book, readers are led to believe thatthe pay raise the changed Scrooge gives Bob Cratchit helps to saveTiny Tim. One theory floating around the Web is that TinyTim suffered from renal tubular acidosis (RTA), a kidneydisease that makes blood too acidic.

Similarly, what illness does Tiny Tim have was it curable?

With tuberculosis, a cure would be unlikely. SoDonald Lewis, an associate professor at Eastern Virginia MedicalSchool in Norfolk, set out to find a disease that wascurable in 1843. He concluded that Tim mayhave suffered from a kidney disease called renaltubular acidosis, or RTA.

Does Tiny Tim have polio?

Tiny Tim is believed to have had rickets,tuberculosis (TB), polio, and/or cerebralpalsy.