Do you take your vitamins, more specifically Vitamin C?
I do take vitamins, and vitamin C is included with what I take.
one of the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.
Uses Scurvy.
The disease scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency and can be prevented and treated with vitamin C-containing foods or dietary supplements. It takes at least a month of little to no vitamin C before symptoms occur. Early symptoms are malaise and lethargy, progressing to shortness of breath, bone pain, bleeding gums, susceptibility to bruising, poor wound healing, and finally fever, convulsions and eventual death. Until quite late in the
with supplement reduction or cessation.
Prevention.
Do not take more than the normal or recommended amount of multivitamin supplements.
Epidemiology.
In the United States, overdose exposure to all formulations of "vitamins" (which includes multi-vitamin/mineral products) was reported by 62,562 individuals in 2004 with nearly 80% of these exposures in children under the age of 6, leading to 53 "major" life-threatening outcomes and 3 deaths (2 from vitamins D and E; 1 from polyvitaminic type formula