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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Vitamin B6 causes Birth defects (?!)
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 19:03:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 19:03:23 1985
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	A recent case reported in the British journal Lancet reported a case of
an unusual birth defect in a mother who had taken massive doses of Vitamin B6
during the early stages of pregnancy. (She was also very light, so the body
weight corrected dosage was very high.)  The author also noted at least two
similar cases also reported in the last few years.

	Do I believe this?  Well, it's something to think about, but the answer
is probably no.  Even the author noted that the connection was anecdotal and
not controlled.  However, when something like this occurred with Benedictine, 
the drug company was in court for a decade.

	So for all the macrobioticists on the net who can give names of people
undergoing miraculous recoveries, I present this as case 1.

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		What do you expect?  Watermelons are out of season!