What do you think about treating patients with Vitamin C?

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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 3:37p.m.

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This time last year, Alan Smith was on life support after being diagnosed with swine flu. He was given just days to live, but his family fought for him to be treated with high doses of intravenous vitamin C. A year on, Alan is alive and well. Now Wellington lawyer Mei Chen has taken up the case - she wants every patient to have the right to ask for vitamin C. What do you think?
This time last year, Alan Smith was on life support after being diagnosed with swine flu. He was given just days to live, but his family fought for him to be treated with high doses of intravenous vitamin C. A year on, Alan is alive and well. Now Wellington lawyer Mei Chen has taken up the case - she wants every patient to have the right to ask for vitamin C. What do you think?

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03 Dec 2011 03:33p.m.

R Lowis wrote:

In the United States vitamin C has been documented in curing infectious diseases at least since the late 1940's. I personally have used vitamin C for various infections for 45 years. The perceived danger of vitamin C is that it is very inexpensive and it's use would cost the pharmaceutical companies a great deal of money. Any government research on vitamins in general will be done with minute doses so that the results will show no or little benefit. As long as we can buy vitamin C we can see the results on ourselves. Alan Smith's family gave him oral vitamin C after he regained consciousness. We can do the same for ourselves. You don't ask a drug economy to provide you with inexpensive natural remedies. Dr. Tom Levy presents on vitamin C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Sa02XnteA

19 Sep 2011 06:59a.m.

jim wrote:

Karen you and others are well received as your intent and desire to help people is clearly there. But i know how tough the med degree is i know how much one doesn't want to say that all that study was a waste because we can prevent most diseases by using orthomolecular medicine. Also i know how much debt a med student gets into and how we DARE not rock the boat in case we are ostracised and unable to repay the student fees.This is why we toe the line.Remember where the word hysterectomy came from and why it was performed! Clinical trials should be done but won't be done by the pharmas because they will show Vitamin C as the "miracle preventative and cure" being safer then current drugs and almost even water! Just the same that the pharmas do not create a malaria vaccine because all the millions who die from malaria are poor asians and africans who cannot afford the vaccine in the first place-no profit. This is why i opted not to be part of the pharma/medico killing machine-yes i believe standing by and doing nothing is being an accomplice. Despite my disgust at the career i had chosen and the realisation that-like my mom and dad-the medical profession has serious flaws. That said i commend you as i am sure you are doing what you can with the best you can although i pray you look wider. Not every thin in life needs a clinical double blind trial to show/confirm an outcome. For instance i ain't gonna test to see if i'll survive a parachute jump without a parachute. Logic and reasoning and evidence based observations suffice. One final thought is this "blood is earth."

26 Sep 2010 06:01p.m.

Carol wrote:

David, never assume that because something is stated as having "scientific research backing its effectiveness" that it will actually cure. Using your own comments "some people will survive, and others are going to die " still applies. The facts and research are out there for Vitamin C, some just cannot believe it, some won't believe it, others have known it for years.

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