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[sSRI-Research] Vitamin C - " Bioterrorism: Beyond Vaccinations and

Antibiotics "

 

Bioterrorism: Beyond Vaccinations and Antibiotics

http://www.mercola.com/2001/nov/17/bioterrorism.htm

 

By Thomas Levy, MD

 

Treatment Alternatives

 

Vitamin C, typically as ascorbic acid or sodium ascorbate, should prove to

be highly effective against both of these conditions. I say " should " only

because their rareness has prevented any single vitamin C researcher from

encountering enough cases to conduct a meaningful study and publish it.

 

However, the likelihood that both of these conditions could be completely

cured, even in their advanced stages, is compelling. Consider the following

information:

 

The medical literature has clear documentation that high enough doses of

injectable vitamin C are almost always effective in curing any of a number

of viral infections still considered today to be incurable. Klenner (1949)

completely cured 60 out of 60 cases of infantile polio in North Carolina in

the middle of a polio epidemic.

 

Several infants already had neurological involvement, but nevertheless

recovered completely.

 

Klenner (1951) was also able to bring about a complete recovery by

administering Vitamin C. Vitamin C has also been documented to rapidly

resolve a number of non-viral infectious diseases that do not readily

resolve in the absence of vitamin C therapy.

 

Diptheria (Klenner, 1949 and 1971), whooping cough (Otani, 1936 and 1939;

Ormerod et al., 1937), and tetanus (Klenner, 1954) all have responded very

well to vitamin C. Of great interest as well is that all three of these

infections are associated with very significant microbe-generated toxins,

much like anthrax.

 

Jungeblut and Zwemer (1935) fou Klenner never encountered a virus he could

not cure, although he used doses of vitamin C that are considered

outrageously high today, even though such doses are nevertheless decidedly

non-toxic. His initial dosing of vitamin C would go as high as 700 mg/kg

body weight, which could exceed 70 grams for a large man.

 

Furthermore, he would repeat this high dosing in only a few hours if no drop

in fever or clear clinical improvement resulted. He never reported any

toxicity from vitamin C dosed in this fashion. My own clinical experiences

with intravenous vitamin C infusions allow me to completely believe all of

the data that Klenner and others have accumulated.

 

Many feel vitamin C did not deliver as promised when Linus Pauling's

recommendations of a few grams of vitamin C a day did not end up curing or

completely preventing the common cold. To be sure, it did make those

infected feel better, and it shortened the durations of their symptoms.

 

It did also lessen the likelihood of getting a cold. After determining your

best daily dose of vitamin C by following the bowel tolerance method

outlined by Cathcart (1981) and after taking that daily dose regularly, the

likelihood of contracting any infectious disease, anthrax and smallpox

included, is remote.

 

For many people, this will translate to a total daily dose of vitamin C of 8

to 15 grams taken in divided doses, although some people will require more.

The recommended form of vitamin C would be sodium ascorbate, although

ascorbic acid would be If you are exposed to a very high dose of infectious

organisms, the maintenance doses of vitamin C noted above can be overwhelmed

and clinical infection can still result.

 

The simple answer then is to start vitamin C infusions at up to 700 mg/kg at

a time as often as is necessary to obtain a positive clinical response.

Lesser amounts and less frequent dosing can be used if the clinical picture

is not severe. Obviously, the administration would have to be very vigorous

in an inhalation anthrax patient.

 

Regardless of any skepticism that the reader may have toward such high-dose

vitamin C therapy, it is absolutely unthinkable not to try it or add it to

whatever protocol is being administered to the patient. At the very least,

all acute infectious diseases rapidly metabolize vitamin C, and all acutely

ill patients are consequently deficient in vitamin C.

 

The administration of vitamin C should always be undertaken when acute

vitamin C deficiency is a certainty, even if one does not believe that

enough.

 

Hydration is also extremely important, both in health and disease.

Furthermore, vigorous hydration (2 to 4 quarts of water daily) will augment

the effectiveness of the vitamin C therapy. Just about the only time high

doses of vitamin C can cause problems is if the patient is not kept very

well hydrated.

 

Remember that patients with high fever loss body water rapidly. Most other

medicines have more side effects in the face of dehydration as well. There

are a host of other supplements and nutrients that can augment the

anti-microbial effects and immune-bolstering effects of vitamin C, which is

beyond the scope of this issue of the newsletter. Just don't neglect the

most important one: vitamin C.