The American Medical Association journal JAMA published two articles related to vitamin C on 2023-10-25:
Clinical study: Intravenous Vitamin C for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 (sedement of vitamin C in hospitalized patients with COVID-19). Its conclusion is that among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, there is little chance that vitamin C will improve major comprehensive outcomes such as organ-free support days and hospitalization survival.
Editor comment: Vitamin C for Patients With COVID-19: More Evidence of Lack of Efficacy in Patients With Sepsis C Treatment of COVID-19 patients: More evidence shows lack of efficacy in patients with dysemia). Its focus is (red):
Vitamin C is an essential nutrient that can be used as an aid factor for antioxidants, immunomodulators and a variety of enzymes. Vitamin C is an effective treatment for aggravated blood disease, because aggravated blood disease is caused by a lack of vitamin C. However, besides this clear benefit, the history of vitamin C as a therapeutic drug is undoubtedly questionable. Vitamin C of different doses has been proposed for the treatment of a variety of conditions and diseases, from cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia to the common cold; however, despite extensive clinical trials, there is little evidence to support its usual use for these conditions.
Recently, after a study was published, people's interest in vitamin C has surged. The study shows that using vitamin C in combination with hydratin cortisone and thiamine can significantly reduce the mortality rate of dysemia. Unfortunately, a larger scale trial showed that vitamin C was not beneficial for patients with dysemia, so it is recommended not to use vitamin C in this group.
Before the release of these larger-scale dysemia trials, Vitamin C was proposed as a treatment for COVID-19, a viral dysemia. In this issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from the "LOVIT-COVID" trial and the "Random, embedded, multifactorial adaptive platform trial for community pneumonia" (REMAP-CAP) trial reported the following results: 2 Coordinated random clinical trials to investigate the effects of vitamin C on COVID-19 in hospitalized adults.
This study is another aspect of the growing number of random clinical trials that failed to prove that vitamin C is beneficial for the treatment of infection or dysemia. What is even more grieving is that vitamin C may be harmful to patients with COVID-19, because whether it is a severe or a non-critical patient, the possibility of injury is more than 90% on days without organ support.
From the perspective of a clinical doctor, the results of the test were clear: Vitamin C should not be used as a treatment method for hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Although previous trials with smaller scales showed potential benefits for Vitamin C in COVID-19 patients, there are well-known risks of bias in small studies, and overall unified trials strongly support Vitamin C for ineffectiveness.
In fact, the real and greatest harm of Vitamin C injected with static injection is not in treating dysemia, but in treating cancer. Please see:
2019: Vitamin C fights cancer? : In short, "cell molecular pharmacology" is just a bluffing name, and the alternative methods it advocates, including static injection of large doses of vitamin C, not only does not have any effect, but may have counterproductive effects.
2020: Can vitamin C fight Wuhan pneumonia/influenza and treat cancer? : There is not enough data to indicate the correlation between vitamin C status and the risk of suffering from a specific type of cancer. Currently, evidence on the treatment of cancer with static injection of vitamin C is limited to observational studies.
2021: Vitamin C treats cancer? Lipid quality? High dose static injection? : The Cancer Institute in the UK even said: "Some studies even believe that Vitamin C interferes with some anti-cancer drugs, and one study shows that it can even protect breast cancer cells from the drug tamoxifen."
2023: Vitamin's theory and nonsense: Although Vitamin D is a red chicken, Vitamin C has been in danger for nearly 40 years, and why is it still the number one in all water-soluble vitamin supplements. Especially in alternative cancer treatments, Vitamin C injection is really a money-loss tree for the black-hearted doctor.
Original text: Vitamin injection C: A history of misfortuneResponsibility editor: Gu Zihuan