Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Vitamin C may cause kidney stones

 Vitamin C may cause kidney stones  Regular intake of high doses of vitamin C doubles the risk of kidney stones. That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Swedish researchers looked at the medical records of 23,355 men suffering from kidney stones . The information covers the period of observation of 11 years. It was found that those men who took the supplement with vitamin C Typically containing 1 to 000 mg tablet, twice risked face disease than those who do not drink vitamins. The biggest risk was seen in men who took the highest doses of vitamins.

But the reception vitamin C Which is part of the popular multivitamins, the risk of   kidney stones   not raised. This is due to the fact that the concentration of this vitamin in such formulations is low. Kidney stones are small crystals of waste products of the body, which are formed in the urinary tract, and then often blocking them. Kidney stones cause quite severe pain called renal colic. With this disorder encountered from 10% to 20% of males and 3-5% of women.

Adult experts recommend that no more than 40 mg of vitamin C per day. Higher doses can cause stomach pain, bloating and diarrhea. Earlier this list never got kidney stones. Science first believed that vitamin C is useful in the prevention of colds, but no serious evidence of his preventive force was found.

Only proved that using the vitamin C can shorten the duration of colds so vitamins recommended to take in the case where the disease started. (READ MORE)



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