Overdosing on vitamin C?

maximus44 · June 2007

this might sound abit odd but im just wondering if there are any serious affects to overdosing on vitamin C. For the last 3 years or so i have been eating 3 large oranges and drinking alot of orange juice. Just glanced at the cartoon and realised it said 100ml contains 62% of RDA. I have been having nearly 1litre a day....
I think im going to turn orange
oh yeah btw its tropicana not crap like sunny D...

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HappyZZZCamper · June 2007

Nothing serious will happen. Too much vit C has a laxative effect though.

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roj279 · June 2007

for the last 3 years?? surely if something was going to happen it would have happend by now

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mbukjames · June 2007

Can you actually overdose on vitamin C? I've never thought about it..

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Flurry · June 2007

you'll turn into Robert Killroy-Silk

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Red Lemon · June 2007

I have multivitamins containing 800% of the RDA of Vitamin C in a single tablet. As far as I'm aware, the body takes what it needs and the rest gets pissed away.

jamiejim · June 2007

nothing bad will happen

cid · June 2007

Vitamin C is fine, there are others you need to be careful with if you're taking lots of supplements though, google hypervitaminosis.

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mmm_pie · June 2007

Isn't one of the vitamins supposed to give you cancer if you OD too much? (it wasnt C)

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maximus44 · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mmm_pie

Isn't one of the vitamins supposed to give you cancer if you OD too much? (it wasnt C)

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by haleybunny

Sometimes it overheats. You have to make sure it's in a ventilated place all the time.
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i know you said it wasnt C, but im scared now

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Simonb256 · June 2007

A moderate amount of Vit C has a laxative effect.
A large stupid amount can be potentially fatal ( as with anything)

I know this as I was in the same boat ages ago.

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Anonymous · June 2007

I can remember reading somewhere a while ago that having an excessive about for log periods of time can increase the likelihood of some cancers but they were talking about people have 3000mg+ per day for years and years.

I'd recon that you'd be OK, providing that it is part of a balanced diet oh, don't forget you home is at risk if you don't keep up repayments on a loan secured against it.

joshleb · June 2007

Gingers have more vitamin D than normal hair. FACT

If you are worried ask a pharmicist or doctor or something

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mbukjames · June 2007

I want to overdose on vitamin C, see what happens..[:D]

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rubber side up · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mbukjames

I want to overdose on vitamin C, see what happens..[:D]

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i want you to OD as well.

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Super Nuts4fsr · June 2007

The body only uses what it needs in most vitamins and minerals, excreting the excess away as waste. Other nutrients the body adjusts it's metabolizm/usage of.
The MAJOR example of this is NICOTINE. Your body NEEDS nicotine to survive, in miniscule amounts, and gets it from some vegetables etc. HOWEVER, your body adjusts it's metabolizm to the anount it injests, and is why it is SO hard to give up smoking....

Food for thought...

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icrashed · June 2007

i personally think your going to be fine, but when people are screaming "YOU KNOW WHEN YOUVE BEEN TANGO'D" at you in the street id lay off the orange juice a little

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inflateablemoron · June 2007

If I were you, I'd be more worried about what the acid in all that concentrated orange juice was doing to my teeth than about how much vitamin C was in it.

Shadow_Conspiracy · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Nuts4fsrT

The body only uses what it needs in most vitamins and minerals, excreting the excess away as waste. Other nutrients the body adjusts it's metabolizm/usage of.
The MAJOR example of this is NICOTINE. Your body NEEDS nicotine to survive, in miniscule amounts, and gets it from some vegetables etc. HOWEVER, your body adjusts it's metabolizm to the anount it injests, and is why it is SO hard to give up smoking....

Food for thought...

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So, to clarify.

Stop smoking, eat a shitload of vegetables?

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Stuff · June 2007

If you have been ingesting alot of vitamin C several times the amount reccomended and cut down to normal you'll know about it. You can actually get a kind of come down scurvy as your body gets used to being saturated with vitamin C. When you take the large volumes away its similar to cutting it out all together. So if your worried cut down on it slowly but then if your craving oranges perhaps its because you need the vitamin C

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Overdosing on vitamin C?

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