Posted on 03/25/2020 5:50:57 AM PDT by dennisw
Seriously sick coronavirus patients in New York state’s largest hospital system are being given massive doses of vitamin C — based on promising reports that it’s helped people in hard-hit China, The Post has learned.
Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, said his intensive-care patients with the coronavirus immediately receive 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C.
Identical amounts of the powerful antioxidant are then readministered three or four times a day, he said.
Each dose is more than 16 times the National Institutes of Health’s daily recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C, which is just 90 milligrams for adult men and 75 milligrams for adult women.
The regimen is based on experimental treatments administered to people with the coronavirus in Shanghai, China, Weber said.
Enlarge ImageDr. Andrew G. Weber Dr. Andrew G. WeberLinkedIn “The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C,” he said.
“It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.”
A spokesman for Northwell — which operates 23 hospitals, including Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side — said vitamin C was being “widely used” as a coronavirus treatment throughout the system, but noted that medication protocols varied from patient to patient.
“As the clinician decides,” spokesman Jason Molinet said.
About 700 patients are being treated for coronavirus across the hospital network, Molinet said, but it’s unclear how many are getting the vitamin C treatment.
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First it was vitamin D, now it’s vitamin C. Make up your mind!
Right. 1000 mg. taken twice a day is my plan.
You definitely have to be your own and loved ones’ health advocate. So many physicians are smug and dismissive, especially male doctors. I’m liking female doctors more and more.
Glad you fought for your mom and she got better.
Shouldn't the media be condemning this and the governor of Nevada be banning it? This all based on anecdotal evidence after all.
I did read years ago about a guy who died from drinking carrot juice (vitamin A).
Seems he drank so much that he got cirrhosis of the liver and died.
WHY? I heard/read that vitamin C does NOTHING for COVID-19.
Can’t hurt, won’t help.
Vitamin C, another thing the ChiComs have cornered the production of.
Because the ChiComs are our...….frens, right?
Do the ChiComs pollute/weaken the vit C they export, a la
“The Third Man”?
p
If DJT doesn’t mention it, then he’s “KILLING PEOPLE BY BEING SO STUPID HE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON!”
he can’t win, so he just keeps on pushing through.
drs finally thinking outside the box....maybe the one good thing this covid will do is bring back free thinking and innovation....
Roses are known by all I hope. Hips are the fruit ball formed at the end of the stem below the flower/sepals. Hips on bushes may not be widely available this time of year but I know a few places where they've gone wild and last year's hips may be still hanging on the bushes. Not sure of the C content in an overwintered hip but the flavor would have the tart flavor if C is present. Plus, pretty sure teas with rose hips are still plentiful.
Also look for teas with hibiscus as a top ingredient. Very high in C as well. Many peppers also have a high vit C content. A quick online search would give info on the content in specific peppers. I overwinter pepper trees and harvest year round.
check out Wneighbor post upthread # 73 iirc
1st question...
Is the … 1,500 milligrams … accurate information ?
( i thought previous 2 wks ago were saying much higher..??!)
Quali-C is from Scotland.
https://www.dsm.com/products/quali-c/en_US/homepage.html
It’s 1,500 milligrams 3-4 times a day.
Not sure of the purpose of that much. I was taught that the body could only absorbed 250 mg at a time and the rest was excreted in urine.
250mg tabs are hard to find. I have been chewing 500mg Vit C twice a day for the past 2 wks.
For many years, I’ve chewed one or 2 a day every time I feel the 1st signs of a sore throat or cold symptoms. It’s worked for me.
Interesting. Thanks.
Interesting, thanks. Clicking through further on their site I see they synthesize their C from corn (granted, Euro, non-GMO). As if we don’t have enough corn here!
Exactly! For maximum effect take a little bit of C throughout the day. And in my book this way of taking C is the best defense for anyone worried about the corona virus.
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