Dutch news reports “Use of vitamin C in coronavirus remarkable” March 7, 2020

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“Use of vitamin C in coronavirus remarkable”

Some fifty tons of vitamin C have now been transported to Chinese hospitals. The vitamin is used in patients with a coronavirus infection. This is remarkable, says Dr. Gert Schuitemaker.

Schuitemaker, non-practicing orthomolecular pharmacist and editor-in-chief of Fit magazine with nutrition, follows developments closely. Three clinical studies are currently underway in China to document the experiences with vitamin C in the treatment of corona patients. Doctors in ICUs in several hospitals report that patients are more likely to be cured if they are given high doses (24,000 to 30,000 milligrams per day) of vitamin C by infusion.

In Shanghai, from March 3, there is an official recommendation that patients with a coronavirus infection should be treated with high doses of vitamin C by infusion.

“A logical story,” said Schuitemaker. “The immune system needs extra vitamin C to function properly. Preventive, but certainly with infections, the need for vitamin C is greater than normal. ”

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Shortness of breath

Intensivist Paul Elbers of Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, also finds the treatment promising. “It could be a very good option for seriously ill corona patients. The rationale is reasonable. Vitamin C inhibits the degree to which the lungs become permeable to fluid and thus prevents shortness of breath. ” According to Elbers, the therapy also shows few special side effects.

At the same time, he puts the positive results achieved in a number of corona patients into perspective. “Most corona patients are cured at all. Also on the IC survives 85 percent. If a patient improves after a vitamin C injection, this does not have to be due to the treatment. ”

Suppose Elbers would get a seriously ill corona patient on the ICU, he would consider vitamin C therapy. “Preferably in research. Give one group such treatment, the other group not. As long as it has not been established that the treatment will help – and it certainly is not yet – you can justify that ethically. ”

The American internist and IC doctor Prof. Paul Marik is also enthusiastic. When asked, he said that the vitamin C therapy “can have an important added value in the treatment of patients with a Covid-19 infection.”

Blood poisoning

In 2017, Marik caused a stir in the medical world with the beneficial effects of high doses of vitamin C in patients with sepsis or blood poisoning from an infection. Marik, head of the IC of Sentara hospital in Norfolk, has now treated hundreds of sepsis patients. In January 2020, he emphasized at a conference that the therapy has no harmful side effects.

Vitamin C administration in sepsis is currently a hot topic in the medical world. On April 24 there is a conference of IC doctors about vitamin C in sepsis at the UMC, location VUmc. Marik is also one of the speakers.

In an online expert review published late December 2019, Marik refers to studies that looked at the effects of vitamin C on various viral infections. The different types of white blood cells in the immune system contain high concentrations of vitamin C. This vitamin improves the activity of the immune cells and can therefore lead to a milder course of the disease, Marik notes. He refers to the results of laboratory and animal studies and studies in patients with viral infections such as flu, shingles, polio and rabies.

Marik points to the urgency of well-designed clinical research into the value of vitamin C therapy in patients with viral diseases such as the flu and in patients with infections from the large group of herpes viruses. These cause, among other things, shingles and Pfeiffer’s disease. He also mentions the RS virus. Hospitals are filled every winter with small children with serious RSV infections.

“Tens of thousands of people worldwide die from complications from the flu. In experimental studies, influenza shows beneficial effects of vitamin C administration. However, studies with influenza patients are still lacking. On our IC, we additionally treated about twelve influenza patients with life-threatening lung failure with high doses of vitamin C per IV. Their condition improved quickly. ”