My Mom started on Vitamin C, and what do you know --she all of the sudden started having heart trouble (beating 2 fast). I told her to please stop taking it for a while until she could consult a specialist. I know it was not just the C , at least I am really certain because she was also cooking with cast iron and also eating some really fresh deer. In my eyes she had too much iron all of the sudden and being as our family has the iron overload..she just got a GOOD dose. She has cut down on the cast iron cooking and the C so she is better now! She put the deer back too. Mellow with bland for a while! Lord knows if she was to keep eating that deer, and all that she was doing ...she would probably be the mayor of this town! EEEEEYYYYAAA she was getting energetic!
Vitamin C - Heart Trouble!?
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tropicalfish
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Usually vitamin C toxicity shows up as diarrhea. When the dosage is lowered, the diarrhea will stop. Our bodies do not make vitamin C, therefore any the body doesn't use is expelled with the urine. Vitamin C, in large doses, can put a strain on the kidneys, if one has kidney disease.
Is it possible the heart racing was caused by hormone fluctuations? Usually drinking a cold glass of water will calm tachycardia down. Also, holding your breath for a few seconds slows it down too.
Is it possible the heart racing was caused by hormone fluctuations? Usually drinking a cold glass of water will calm tachycardia down. Also, holding your breath for a few seconds slows it down too.