FDA Bans IV- Vitamin C .. during flu pandemic

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Action Alert - Now the FDA Is Going After Vitamin C!

January 4, 2011

The FDA has just notified small pharmacies that they will no longer be allowed

to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C­despite its remarkable power

to heal conditions that conventional medicine can’t touch. Please help reverse

this outrageous decision!

Let’s get this straight. The government acknowledges the risk of a worldwide flu

pandemic. It acknowledges that conventional drugs cannot cure big viruses --

like the mononucleosis and hepatitis viruses, many influenza viruses, and many

others. It acknowledges that many bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics

and are killing increasing thousands. It acknowledges the risk of a worldwide

drug-resistant TB pandemic.

Despite acknowledging all this, it now insists on wiping out one of the best

potential treatments for these conditions and for certain cancers as well. And

why is this being done? What possible rationale is offered? Because it’s

dangerous? No. Because it can’t be patented and therefore won’t be taken through

the standard FDA approval process. No matter that vitamin C is one of the least

toxic components of our food supply and liquid forms of it have been used safely

for decades.

By the way, here is what is not safe. Don’t substitute home-made vitamin C

solution for pharmaceutical grade liquid. That is not safe for injection. If the

FDA action leads someone to do that, the FDA should be held responsible for the

results.

The government, instead of banning intravenous vitamin C, should instead be

supporting research into it. Even though IV C is being used in burn units around

the world, including in the US, and has been adopted by the military for this

purpose, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) refuses to fund any studies

using intravenous C in patients. There are privately funded studies currently

underway, but of course these cannot continue if the FDA bans the substance.

With at least one of the pharmacies, the FDA seems to be banning injectable

magnesium chloride and injectable vitamin B-complex 100 as well. These two

substances are routinely added to intravenous C to make the “Myers Cocktail,”

used especially for conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, and infectious

diseases such as hepatitis, AIDS, mononucleosis, and flu. The FDA is not going

after the Myers Cocktail directly, but is rather attacking each individual

substance used to make the cocktail, and may conceivably be going after

injectable vitamins and minerals in general, despite such injections being given

under the care of a qualified physician.

Please contact the FDA right away, and tell them to stop this foolish war on

intravenous vitamin C!

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Each of us reading this should think, “Intravenous C could someday save my

life.” Dr. Collin, editor of the Townsend Letter, discusses the case of

a man in New Zealand who nearly died from swine flu.

http://drjonathancollin.com/letter_IVVCinIC.html

After developing a severe fever and upper respiratory infection, his condition

deteriorated and he became comatose. Eventually even a ventilator was

insufficient to keep him breathing because his lungs were so compromised by

pulmonary edema. After weeks of heroic intervention, doctors decided there was

no chance of survival and nothing further should be done for him.

The family asked the hospital to administer intravenous vitamin C. After much

disagreement, the hospital gave him 25 grams of vitamin C every 6 hours. There

was so much improvement over the next two days that the hospital decided to

reinstate his intensive care­but they discontinued the vitamin C, saying that he

had improved only because they had rolled him onto his side or his stomach

instead of keeping him on his back! Not surprisingly, his condition once again

deteriorated.

The family moved him to another facility that reluctantly allowed the IV vitamin

C (albeit at a lower dose), and his lung function gradually improved. He came

out of coma after four weeks, and after taking vitamin C orally, he gradually

improved enough to be discharged. One year later, he was back to flying his

plane and surveying his farm in New Zealand. None of the doctors who fought so

hard to prevent his treatment with vitamin C have ever acknowledged their error.

Even people in perfectly good health may not be getting enough vitamin C. We

recently noted the research that up to 87% of Americans are vitamin D deficient.

http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-is-the-institute-of-medicine-in-bed-with-big\

-pharma/

But studies also show that many people may be deficient in vitamin C as well. A

recent study on 1,000 Canadian adults found 33% had suboptimal levels of vitamin

C­one in seven was “very deficient”­which could place them at increased risk for

chronic health problems.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/07/13/aje.kwp156.full

Those who were vitamin C deficient were also more likely to have larger waists,

greater body mass, and higher blood pressure.

http://www.purescientific.com/component/content/article/322-vitamin-c-deficiency

The study’s author, Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, suggested eating fruits and vegetables

high in vitamin C, such as citrus fruits and peppers, or taking supplements. The

recommended dietary allowance (RDA) in nonsmoking adults is 90 mg per day for

men and 75 mg for women, though some experts say a minimum daily dose of 120 to

200 mg is more appropriate, and some routinely take much higher doses

themselves. Research also shows that people suffering from various diseases may

benefit from larger amounts. In the case of the common cold, a review of

published trials found that amounts of 2 grams per day appear to be more

effective than 1 gram.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10340298

But there is a big difference between oral vitamin C and intravenous C. One

maintains your health. The other seems to directly attack pathogens and cancer

cells. Vitamin C taken orally will not do this, because the concentration does

not seem sufficient to accomplish the task.

Please take action immediately!

Please contact the FDA, and tell them to take their job of protecting our health

seriously­by allowing injectable vitamin C, magnesium chloride, and vitamin

B-complex 100 to continue being manufactured and sold! And don’t accept the

answer that these substances need to be taken through the full FDA approval

process. These are not patentable substances and no one will pay billions to do

that. To require a standard approval process for them is identical to banning

them, as the FDA know full well.

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