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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Vitamin C and colds/flu
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.232328.2459@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:23:28 -0600
- References: <1992Nov14.010907.6246@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Nov19.101840.8993@ac.dal.ca> <1992Nov20.154812.27152@pixel.kodak.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.154812.27152@pixel.kodak.com>, young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young) writes:
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- [about diarrhea and nosebleeds from vit. C]
-
- It's hard to draw much of a conclusion from such a small, uncontrolled
- study. A placebo control with a crossover design would have been nice.
- I should state that I'm not a fancier of vitamins myself. That aside,
- there is a potential mechanism for at least the GI symptoms that I have
- seen once before as a medical student. A woman was taking very large
- doses of vit. C, something in excess of the amounts reported in this
- study, and developed abdominal pain. The more pain she got, the more
- C she took, thinking it would help. When she finally came to surgery,
- she was found to have crystalized out the C in the lining of her bowel,
- which had caused some minor hemorrhaging and was presumed to be the
- cause of her pain.
-
- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
-