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Please explain what happens if someone has "vitamin c hypervitaminosis"?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Hypervitaminosis C: would be unlikely because excess vitamin C is excreted in feces (primarily) & in urine (secondarily) & thus is not absorbed into the blood. Large doses of Vitamin C are contraindicated with g6pd deficiency, renal insufficiency, oxalate renal calculus formers, chronic hemodialysis or in some forms of iron overload. Taking excessive amounts of Vitamin C can cause symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, >

Answered 8/8/2014

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