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Is it okay to take 6 tablets of 500mg vitamin c per day if a person is ill?
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Why so much: There's no clear benefit to such high doses. In the end, this is a water soluble vitamin so you're unlikely to run into problems, as you should pee most of the extra out. But, at least for men, high dose vitamin C has been shown to increase the risk of kidney stones. You're probably better of keeping the dose in the range of 1000mg or less to be safe.
Answered 3/25/2015
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