Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aesat.UUCP
Path: utzoo!aesat!rwh
From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russell Herman)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin C
Message-ID: <194@aesat.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 12:56:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: aesat.194
Posted: Fri Aug 10 12:56:09 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 05:22:52 EDT
References: <927@akgua.UUCP>
Organization: AES Data Inc., Mississauga Ont., Canada
Lines: 18

There's been a lot of talk on the net about the relationship of Vitamin C
and kidney stones. I discussed it with my urologist, as I am 1) a stone-former;
2) limiting my supplemental Vitamin C to 300mg/day. I was told that large 
(unspecified) amounts of Vitamin C can trigger or aggravate a tendency to
form uric acid stones. This is only one, and not the most common one, of the
types of kidney stones. The reason some people form stones and others not is
unknown most of the time; by megadosing Vitamin C you may discover that
you are a stone-former. [end of paraphrase of urologist]

It seems to me that, if you believe in/wish to test its efficacy for
whatever afflictions trouble/frighten you, you may wish to incur the risk.
-- 
  ______			Russ Herman
 /      \			{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!rwh
@( ?  ? )@			
 (  ||  )			The opinions above are strictly personal, and 
 ( \__/ )			do not reflect those of my employer (or even
  \____/			possibly myself an hour from now.)