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.)