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Updated: Feb 21 2017

Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)

  • Deficiency
    • Causes
      • diet lacking citrus fruits and green vegetables
      • infants on formula that is boiled too long
        • excessive heat destroys vitamin C
      • cigarette smoking
    • Presentation
      • scurvy
        • swollen gums, bruising, perfollicular hemorrhage, poor wound healing, glossitis, ↑ bleeding time
        • anemia due to combined iron and folate deficiency
    • Treatment
      • supplementation with vitamin C should produce resolution of symptoms
  • Excess
    • Symptoms
      • formation of renal calculi made from uric acid
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