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Diarrhea can cause electrolyte imbalances, kidney impairment, dehydration, and defective immune system responses. When oral drugs are administered, the efficiency of the drug is to produce a therapeutic effect and the lack of this effect may be due to the medication travelling too quickly through the digestive system, limiting the time that it ...
9. Sugar-Free Chewing Gum Can Cause Diarrhea. Sugarless chewing gum contains sorbitol, a sugar alcohol with laxative properties. Overdoing it on sugar-free gum can lead to gastrointestinal ...
Cooking can reduce the vitamin C content of vegetables by around 60%, possibly due to increased enzymatic destruction. [37] Longer cooking times may add to this effect. [38] Another cause of vitamin C loss from food is leaching, which transfers vitamin C to the cooking water, which is decanted and not consumed. [39]
Although vitamin C can be well tolerated at doses well above what government organizations recommend, adverse effects can occur at doses above 3 grams per day. The common "threshold" side effect of megadoses is diarrhea caused by oral consumption of vitamin C in such doses.
“Being adequately hydrated is essential because the stomach flu often brings diarrhea and/or vomiting that causes fluid losses,” says Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN, host of the Media Savvy Podcast and ...
Myth #3: Vitamin C can prevent a cold Pharmacy and grocery store shelves are packed with vitamin C supplements that heavily imply or even clearly state that they’ll help prevent a cold. But the ...
Men in both studies, on a diet devoid or nearly devoid of vitamin C, had blood levels of vitamin C too low to be accurately measured when they developed signs of scurvy, and in the Iowa study, at this time were estimated (by labeled vitamin C dilution) to have a body pool of less than 300 mg, with daily turnover of only 2.5 mg/day. [91]
Pernicious anemia, or Addison's anemia, is an autoimmune disease which decreases red blood cell count, caused by the body's inability to properly absorb vitamin B12. It can cause diarrhea, pale ...