Cheap vitamin 'C'!

parkside_stroller

If you are going to buy anything for health reasons you could always ask to speak to the pharmacist to check out its purpose, at ........... your local pharmacy!

Got to say though why not eat more fruit and veg and you will get the vitamin C and more

clipboard2

I was in day 2 of a full blown cold when I found this thread, and decided to give citric acid a go (49p for 50gms - Tesco pharmacy). I must have taken about 15gms of the stuff in several glasses of squash yesterday.
Yippee!! It works! Today I am symptom free (apart from a tad of residual nasal discharge) - amazing as a cold normally stays with me for 7 days at least.
I really don't care if citric acid is or isn't chemically identical to ascorbic acid. It worked for me, and only cost a few pence!!!

firespire

clipboard2 wrote:

I was in day 2 of a full blown cold when I found this thread, and decided to give citric acid a go (49p for 50gms - Tesco pharmacy). I must have taken about 15gms of the stuff in several glasses of squash yesterday.
Yippee!! It works! Today I am symptom free (apart from a tad of residual nasal discharge) - amazing as a cold normally stays with me for 7 days at least.
I really don't care if citric acid is or isn't chemically identical to ascorbic acid. It worked for me, and only cost a few pence!!!

The cold was probably cured by the large amount fluids you were taking rather than the citric acid.

You can overdose on citric acid see - http://www.drugs.com/mtm/citric_acid_and_sodium_citrate.html

And please no one take more than the recomended dose of vitamin C , I think the limit is in the milligrams (a fraction of a gram). I know someone who was hospitalised for a Vitamin C overdose as they constantly eat oranges.