Polycythaemia and Vitamin C

Vitamin C and COVID-19

  Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...

Smoking, drinking, and polycythaemia.

The mean packed cell volume is higher in the smoking population than in non-smokers.'' Chronic hypoxaemia, from whatever cause, tends to cause a rise in the packed cell volume.4 The obvious temptation is to invoke hypoxaemia, resulting from lung disease induced by smoking, to explain the high values found in smokers-but is this apparently straightforward explanation correct? The increase in pac...

Vitamin C and Cancer

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid has been proposed as an anticancer agent, as an intervention to reduce cancer incidence, and also as a medication to reduce cancer treatment-related side effects. While there has been significant basic science research that has evaluated the potential tumoricidal mechanisms of action, clinical studies have been underpowered, retrospective, or poorly designed. Current ...

Vitamin C and Its

Since scurvy, whether occurring in adults or infants has been recognized, the effect of this disease on the gums has been familiar. The sequence of events, swelling, bleeding from the gums and progressive loosening of the teeth, is well known. It is interesting to note that in infantile scurvy these changes only occur when teeth are present or just on the point of eruption. In their early exper...

Vitamin C and Ovulation