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>From: Becki Kain <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: vitamin C in water
>back in April (I'm catching up on FML's!) Mo'Bob (I think) suggested
>putting 1000mg ovf vitamin c in 1 litre of water. Not to say that I don't
>trust Mo'Bob, but I am curious if other folks are doing this.
Becki,
This much vit C is fine, although do note that too much vit C will cause
diarrhea. Friday is getting approx. 200mg/day and that seems to be the max
appropriate dose for her - causes slightly loose stools and adding any more
vit C causes definite diarrhea. So, the question would be, do they drink
more than 1/5 litre/day apiece?
Vit C washes out of the system, so to speak, so overdosing with it is not
really a concern. What you could do, instead of dosing the water with it
(changing the taste of the water, although I don't think it would affect the
water's lifetime), is buy vit C powder or capsules and measure it out to
sprinkle their food with it. Buy ester C if you're worried about purity or
source. I do this with Potpie's food and she appears to dig the taste of
the pieces that have C on them more than the ones that don't. Again, I have
never heard of overdosing with C to cause a problem other than diarrhea in
ferrets.
Vit C in high doses is frequently used for cancer patient therapy, and is
also recommended in treatment of allergies, general colds/flu, and urinary
tract infections.
Melissa
___ Melissa Litwicki __ [log in to unmask] ___
By the whole newsgroup devoted tennis showing
it after scarfing fork and laughters
[Posted in FML issue 1966]
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