Read user comments about the side effects, benefits, and effectiveness of Vitamin C (VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID)).
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Reviewer: rettluvsme@yahoo.com, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Caregiver)
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If you haven't tried it do not knock it, it is better than anything I have ever tried...I am 69 years old & healthy as a horse
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Reviewer: When I needed, 55-64 Female (Consumer)
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I got my vit.C by fruits every morning, oranges,pineapple,straberries or other acid frit alone or together,I do'nt mix them with food.
If I feel some flu or cold synthoms,then I eat more and I include other kind of anioxidants,and half of a pill of "AllerClear" and some rest,it's kind of magic medicine.
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I think this does nothing for the common cold.
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Reviewer: Mihaela, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Consumer)
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I took vitamin C to stop common cold (or perhaps flu, who knows?) three times in the last year and it work every time. Took 1000 mg every hour for 2 days (not during the night, though) and the incipient ilness did not develop, it just went away.
I am now taking 1 tbsp of vitamin C powder every morning (about 13-15 grams in a pint of water) and it's the best constipation relief I have ever exper
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Reviewer: Dr. S., 55-64 Male (Consumer)
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This is a very poorly presented article indeed... giving Vitamin C the status of a panacea, when there is little epidemiological evidence to support this cure-all -- especially for the common cold for which twice Nobel laureate Linus Pauling was an advocate, despite his lack of epidemiological knowledge or acumen.
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