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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: vitamin C
Message-ID: <45@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 15:30:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 15:30:37 1985
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Summary: 

In article <329@weitek.UUCP> mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes:
>I have found that a single 1000 mg tablet before bed on the first day I
>feel a scratchy throat prevents the cold.  If I miss the chance, a cold
>inevitably develops.  I always let the pill dissolve a little before
>swallowing or chew it up; maybe the people in the study didn't do that.

Two comments:

1) Chewing 1000 mg vitamin C tablets or letting them dissolve in your mouth
   is hazardous to your teeth.  Vitamin C = ascorbic _acid_.  I've heard of
   one case of a woman who virtually destroyed her molars by chewing  three
   pills a day for _less than a year_.

2) I find I get a similar prophylactic effect by drinking orange juice when
   I  feel  a  cold threatening.  My dentist tells me my teeth are in great
   shape.

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