Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects.

Anecdotal information and case reports suggest that intravenously administered vitamin C is used by Complementary and Alternate Medicine (CAM) practitioners. The scale of such use in the U.S. and associated side effects are unknown.We surveyed attendees at annual CAM Conferences in 2006 and 2008, an...

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Main Authors: Sebastian J Padayatty, Andrew Y Sun, Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey, Jeanne Drisko, Mark Levine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2898816?pdf=render