Urge FDA and legislators to allow injectible Vitamin C to be sold

[Guest guest]

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

January 4, 2011

http://www.anh-usa.org/action-alert-now-the-fda-is-going-after-vitamin-c/print/

The FDA has just notified one pharmacy that it will no longer be allowed

to manufacture or distribute injectable vitamin C despite 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 this pharmacy, the FDA also banned injectable magnesium chloride and

injectable vitamin B-complex 100. 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_

(https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display & page=UserAction & id=64\

8) and tell them to stop this

foolish war on intravenous vitamin C!

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 care but 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-bi\

g-pharma/) . But studies also show that many people may be

deficient in vitamin C as well. A recent _study on 1,000 Canadian adults_

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

33% had suboptimal levels of vitamin C one in seven was " very deficient " which

could place them at increased risk for chronic health problems.

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-deficienc\

y) .

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_

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10340298) found that amounts of 2 grams

per day appear to be more effective

than 1 gram.

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 seriously by 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.

Since FDA does not have to pay attention to you, send a copy of your

letter to your congressmember, you can find your representative at

_www.house.gov_ (http://www.house.gov) and your senators each state has 2 at

_www.senate.gov_ (http://www.senate.gov)

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