Allergic to Vitamin C?

[Guest guest]

Hi Bee,

About 3 years ago my husband went to a clinic in Reno that specialized in Lyme

disease. Part of his 6 wk protocol was Vitamin C IV's. However, the first time

they gave it to him, the veins in his arms swelled up enormously. They said it

was an allergic reaction to vitamin C and they administered something else in

it's place (can't remember what it was now).

On your site, on page that talks about help for healing reactions it says, " Take

extra Vitamin C - take 4,000 mgs when symptoms first start to appear, and take

1,000 mgs every hour you are awake until symptoms subside or bowel tolerance is

reached, i.e. you get loose stools or diarrhea. "

My husband hasn't taken vitamin C since then because he's worried about the

reaction he had to the IV's. But I keep reading on your site about how important

it is.

What would you suggest he do? Can you be " allergic " to vit. C?

Thanks,

a M.

[Guest guest]

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> Hi Bee,

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> About 3 years ago my husband went to a clinic in Reno that specialized in Lyme

disease. Part of his 6 wk protocol was Vitamin C IV's. However, the first time

they gave it to him, the veins in his arms swelled up enormously. They said it

was an allergic reaction to vitamin C and they administered something else in

it's place (can't remember what it was now).

+++Hi a. It is impossible for any Human to be allergic to vitamin C, so I

wouldn't suspect the vitamin C itself unless they didn't use the correct kind,

administered it too fast or mixed the formula incorrectly. The correct formula

and instructions on how to administer it is from Orthomolecular Associations or

Physicians.

+++If your husband were truly allergic to vitamin C then any foods he ate that

contained it would also cause that reaction and it is nearly impossible to eat

foods that do not contain vitamin C.

>

> On your site, on page that talks about help for healing reactions it says,

" Take extra Vitamin C - take 4,000 mgs when symptoms first start to appear, and

take 1,000 mgs every hour you are awake until symptoms subside or bowel

tolerance is reached, i.e. you get loose stools or diarrhea. "

>

> My husband hasn't taken vitamin C since then because he's worried about the

reaction he had to the IV's. But I keep reading on your site about how important

it is. What would you suggest he do? Can you be " allergic " to vit. C?

+++Like I wrote, it is impossible to be allergic to vitamin C. Human bodies do

not produce vitamin C like some other animals do, so we must get enough daily in

order to be healthy, otherwise we get scurvy. Scurvy symptoms include lethargy,

followed by formation of spots on the skin, spongy gums, and bleeding from the

mucous membranes. Spots are most abundant on the thighs and legs, and a person

with the ailment looks pale, feels depressed, and is partially immobilized. As

scurvy advances, there can be open wounds, loss of teeth, jaundice, fever, nerve

problems, heart disease, etc. and it can eventually cause death.

+++Since your husband is scared, he would start with small amounts of the kind

of vitamin C I recommend, i.e. 250 mg 3 times a day with complete meals, and

slowly increase it every 5 days. Of course vitamin C helps the body heal and

detoxify itself so he may get some detox and healing reactions, but they are not

allergic reactions - see this article:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/heal11.php

All the best, Bee