Vitamin C Side Effects

As a water soluable vitamin, Vitamin C side effects are few and since any excess will be excreted out in your urine, a Vitamin C overdose should not be much of a concern. Getting enoughVitamin C is important to your overall health as it is a powerful antioxidant that can protect against disease and the effects of aging. It does this by helping to combat free radicals which are constantly assaulting your body trying to steal electrons from your cells. Vitamin C helps by giving the electron to the free radical before it can steal it.

The USRDA for this vitamin is 60 MG per day, but some say you should be ingesting much more. Vitamin C can be obtained from the foods you eat or in pill or liquid form. In extreme cases, your physician may prescribe it in a shot.

Vitamin C side effects from vitamin C overdose may include side or lower back pain, headache, dizziness, cramps, and diarrhea and (rarely) kidney stones. If you have any of these side effects, you should consult a physician and stop or cut back on your dosage.

In this world of junk food and toxins, it seems more likely that you should worry about a vitamin C deficiency, rather than a vitamin C overdose. I wouldn’t worry so much about getting too much of the vitamin. You may experience some of the vitamin c side effects if you eat too many cold lozenges or medications that are enhanced with vitamin C when you have a cold, but for everyday use a multivitamin with 100% of the USRDA combined with sensible eating should provide enough of the vitamin without going overboard.

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