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From: rene@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Vitamin Deficiencies
Message-ID: <4341@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 15:58:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 15:58:22 1983
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An overdose of vitamin A does NOT cause a brain tumor - I wrote that
it sometimes causes the same symptoms as brain tumors, with the
result that it is occasionally is misdiagnosed as such. This was
according to a Science News article some months back (I believe they
mentioned someone having SURGERY to remove a tumor, and there wasn't
one ...). The article also mentioned that megadoses of vitamin A can
mask symptoms of serious problems (I don't remember which ones they
mentioned).

					- rene
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