Below is a polite version of my opinion article published in the December issue of Estilo magazine on scientific research and vitamin C. This polite version is proof that I can control my tongue. At least on the second try

On the wave of increased interest in the topic, doctors and experts have been increasingly stating that “Reseach has proven that vitamin C does not work”.

However, every time I come across an evident truism, I start to look at it carefully.

I asked myself why even doctors with professorial titles keep repeating this mantra, when already 80 years ago Dr. Klenner demonstrated beyond any doubt the extraordinary clinical efficacy of high doses of vitamin C. What new scientific research was there that invalidated the conclusions of his research and the experience of his successors in the decades that followed?

Statistics are quite easy to manipulate, and scientific research is not one hundred percent immune to such manipulation – if you choose the right criteria or sample size you can confirm any thesis proposed by the authors of a study. So I assumed that in my analysis of trials of vitamin C effectiveness, I would come across several publications with questionable methodology and it would be the conclusions from these studies that experts refer to all over the world.

I assumed that doctors, overloaded with work, only read abstracts of studies and repeat wrong conclusions simply because they do not have time to delve into the details of these studies and discover their shortcomings. What I discovered, however, were trials with the correct methodology but doses too low to achieve a therapeutic effect. Currently, the recommended daily intake of vitamin C does not exceed 100 mg and this amount helps at most to avoid an acute form of scurvy. The optimal dose that guarantees good health has not yet been established, and in clinical trials the sufficient therapeutic dose is expected to be 400 mg per day for an adult.

Why were such doses determined? Because larger amounts are considered to be completely excreted from the body. The conclusions of studies conducted under this assumption are therefore unequivocal: 400 mg of vitamin C per day has exactly the same effect on the length of a cold as a placebo.

With all due respect to placebo, which also requires serious research because it is too unusual an effect to ignore – practitioners of the use of megadoses of vitamin C know from experience that it can tremendously help shorten the duration of infections. However, this effect can’t be achieved by taking half a gram (less than 500 mg) per day.

So have higher doses been studied? It turns out that they have. They went as high as 1000 mg per day but no specific therapeutic effects were observed either. Of course, this conclusion does not surprise me at all, because during an infection we take 1000 mg every 30 minutes in order to continually add small – in our opinion – doses of vitamin C, which is quickly flushed out of the body. We want to maintain a level of vitamin C in the blood that helps us to overcome oxidative stress caused by the infection and accelerate our body’s regeneration. Even with such doses, the first symptoms of recovery are sometimes observed only after several hours of supplementation, i.e. after taking several dozen grams of ascorbic acid during a signle day! This is at least an order of magnitude more than in the experiments I have found.

So who can go higher? The Australian Centre for Epidemiology conducted a study in 1998 with a ‘megadose of vitamin C’ in its title. It starts well: a randomized, double-blind trial, a control group, seemingly everything as it should be, but the doses that were used did not exceed 3 grams per day. The experiment was therefore carried out correctly, but with the chosen doses it was doomed to fail from the very beginning. (https://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11700812) 

So far, I have not found studies on the effectiveness of vitamin C in the course of an infection, that would use doses higher than 3000 mg per day. Of course, I do not claim to have searched all the available literature in the world, but it seems that the papers I managed to find are a representative research sample. The conclusions of theses studies could explain the established belief among doctors that vitamin C supplementation during an infection is essentially pointless.

On the one hand, I understand the reluctance of the medical world to experiment with even higher doses of ascorbic acid, due to the fear of kidney stones (for which, by the way, there is no clear scientific evidence). At the same time, however, we have almost 100 years of detailed reports from doctors of various specialties (F. Klenner, R. Cathcart, T. Levy, P. Marik, et al.), who, using doses as high as several dozen grams per day (intravenously and orally), show both the extraordinary antiviral effectiveness of vitamin C as well as its antioxidative, antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying properties. Not to mention the work of dr Paul Marik who has been saving lives of patients suffering from acute sepsis by using, among other things, intravenous infusions of sodium ascorbate.

Being skeptical only on the basis of doses that are too low is therefore dishonest in my opinion. At most, you can state that the effectiveness of a given level of vitamin C has not been demonstrated, but it is impossible to conclude that it does not work at all, so it is time for more trials and new conclusions. Throwing the “baby out with the bathwater” on the basis of incorrectly designed experiments, contrary to many years of reports from clinicians, does not serve anyone, least of all patients.


As with any medical procedure, there is a benefit-risk balance to consider, and the risk associated with using a few grams of vitamin C is negligible even for people with G6PD deficiency.

Therefore, I strongly encourage all those who are unconvinced to suspend their skepticism and test high doses of vitamin C on themselves when the first symptoms of the next cold appear. Autumn is conducive to infections and also to experiments: 1000 mg every 30 minutes taken as a supplement that is easily absorbed, in accordance with our tested formula, should bring about a noticeable effect on the same day (https://anna-bee.com/en/blog/beat-viruses-with-vitamin-c/) or after 3 days at the latest. Therefore, the saying that ‘an untreated cold lasts seven days whereas a treated on lasts one week’ can be consigned to the past.

Any excess vitamin C is excreted on an ongoing basis by the kidneys, intestines and liver. The experiment is simple, safe and cheap, and when it turns out to be effective, it allows you to gain a new perspective on the issues of inflammation and illness in general. In fact, there is nothing to lose, but a lot to gain. It’s worth it!

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I described how to choose the right dose of vitamin C during an infection to get rid of it as quickly as possible in my post: https://anna-bee.com/en/blog/beat-viruses-with-vitamin-c/ We use this strategy for every runny nose, every Boston fever, chickenpox, every surgical procedure and tooth extraction.

It is also suggested that adults living in a polluted city should take about 4,000 mg of vitamin C per day as a preventive measure. This dose is the sum of the recommended amount of 30 mg/kg of body weight + an additional amount to help remove toxins and counteract oxidative stress, at which vitamin C excels.

But how do you determine the daily dose for someone who suffers from a chronic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, arteriosclerosis, bleeding gums, etc.? Did you know that autopsies of people who died of a heart attack identified specific areas of the heart muscle that were suffering from local scurvy? The same deficiencies of vitamin C inside tissues are also discovered in the brains? I didn’t know that either.

So it’s best to take 1 day off, first hydrate yourself properly, and then start saturating your organism with vitamin C according to our tried and tested formula from the post about viruses or use a similar method and take 1-2 grams every 1-2 hours.

When you reach the point of vitamic C saturation in the serum, which is recognized by growling in the stomach or after the onset of diarrhoea, you then add up all the doses that you have taken and that amount should be considered the current maximum dose. In chronic diseases, we take 50-90% of this dose on a permanent basis, i.e. if our stomach started growling after 10 grams, we should take 5-9 grams on a daily basis, if it growled after 20 g, from then on we take 10-18 g, etc.

Remember, of course, that in order to maintain the highest possible concentration of ascorbic acid in the blood, we cannot take the entire dose at once, because the excess washes out too quickly. It is best to divide the planned daily dose into several smaller ones and take it at least with each meal or more often – by doing so we regularly feed the fire, so to speak, and it burns with a fairly even glow allowing the organs in need enough time to warm up

The maximum dose depends on the current condition of the body and may change depending on the situation or the attacking pathogen. This means, that each person starts with a different level of deficiency in different organs, a different diet, a different exposure to the negative effects of pollution, a different level of stress, everyone also has a slightly different weight, and this alone affects when each person reaches the saturation point.

In addition, due to the similarity of the sugar molecule to the ascorbic acid molecule, eating a lot of carbohydrates can give a premature, false symptom of saturation, so if one day you take 5 g without a problem, and the next day your stomach starts growling after 3g, consider whether you aren’t missing a few small doughnuts from the kitchen

Of course, with disorders of the intestinal flora (microbiome), this maximum level will also manifest itself earlier, but rather than a symptom of true saturation, it is a symptom of intestinal hypersensitivity, which should be addressed first.

Dr. Suzanne Humphries says that she takes 2-4000 mg of vitamin C on a daily basis, but when she travels and is exposed to constant stress, fatigue, dry air on the plane, etc., she can easily tolerate doses of 20-30000 mg per day. The maximum required daily dose cannot be predicted in advance, although Dr. Klenner recommended a preventative dose of 1 gram per year of life for children up to 10 years of age, and then 10 grams every day. A range of doses make sense as a guideline

I highly recommend Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ entire lecture on vitamin C, or at least the description of the procedure she presents, which I summarized above.

She also provides a list of situations that potentially increase the need for vitamin C:

– excessive exposure to the sun or radiation,

– polluted air (smog),

– contact with chemicals,

– alcohol (more than 1 drink a day), drugs, smoking (each cigarette burns 25 mg of vitamin C),

– travel, especially by plane (dry air, lots of germs).

Her list also include constipation and she claims that it is an early sign of vitamin C deficiency (scurvy), She claims that in all cases, increasing the daily dose of vitamin C invariably improves bowel function and helps regulate it much more effectively than prunes or psyllium, which most people hate anyway.

I am tempted to observe that the same applies to determining the individual dose of organic sulfur or MSM. We can follow the guidelines set out in various procedures or resulting from our own experience (for example, I know that in order for my wrists and knees to stop hurting, I have to catch up with 6,000 mg of MSM per day for at least 2 weeks), but we can also determine our own maximum dose and stick to it for several weeks or even months until we achieve remission or complete improvement of the condition of the joints or the cessation of other ailments caused by sulfur deficiency.

As a reminder – 1 teaspoon (5 ml) of Anna Bee C syrup contains 1000 mg of vitamin C.

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What a nightmare What a mess A large vinegar jar cracked in my hands and a sizable chunk cut off two of my fingertips.

Instead of meeting with a nice gentleman, who was on his way with a nice machine for testing, I was looking at the growing puddle of blood and the two pieces of skin hanging by a thread and wondering what to do next.

I didn’t know it yet but I had unwittingly classified myself in the ‘transplant’ category.

I called the nice gentleman to postpone the meeting for later, then I called my Husband and asked him to clean the mess,and finally I called 911 to hear that the ambulance paramedics would only wrap my hand. I wrapped it myself in boiled dishcloths and with my hand raised under the headliner, slightly trembling, I set off to the nearest ER.

I parked using only my left hand on the lawn, hoping my car wouldn’t get towed right away.

Because I was bleeding profusely while standing against the wall in the queue and my face looked grim and scared, they admitted me very quickly and were very nice.

The general consensus was reached promptly – the hanging pieces of skin will fall off, there is no point in sewing it on, at best they can make a transplant from another part of the body but not before consulting the surgeon who is currently operating and will be available who knows when.

In the meantime, they started cutting my wedding ring, which heated up to such a temperature that the only thing that saved me was a freeze spray. All in all it was pretty fun.

I also learned that hydrogen peroxide is great for dissolving dried blood. The rescuers generously poured it over every piece of unwrapped wound dressing (and someone always came to look at it), for which I was deeply grateful. For the pouring. For looking at it too.

After 2.5 hours of unwrapping and wrapping the bandages, a very nice surgeon appeared, who told me that it would heal nicely and we are going to sew it.

The staff was surprised but apparently they had the specialist in high regard because no one protested.

I breathed a sigh of relief because I would take anything over a transplant.

The surgeon started sewing, and I immediately discovered how many nerves there are in the tips of my fingers. A very, very large amount. The surgeon sewed and anesthetized, I screamed and kicked, he kept apologizing, I writhed, he anesthetized subsequent points, I kept shouting and demanding to know how much of a psychopath he was. You know… A typical afternoon at the ER. We all had a good time and after half an hour the surgeon finished and was pleased with himself.

He also didn’t blame me for kicking because he told me to lie down and sat right next to me. Not my fault!

Since about 90% of both fingertips were cut off, we could not be sure that such a laced autograft would be accepted. The surgeon (a really wonderful person) told me to go home and return in a few hours, when he would decide whether the skin is turning pink or I am undergoing surgery at night.

What if I don’t want a transplant? He said the regrowth of the fingertips would be a long, painful, potentially festering process and not worth the trouble in his opinion.

OK, so I rushed home and immediately started doing everything I could think of to help the blood flow and the acceptance of my own skin asap!

I immediately gobbled a few tablespoons of Anna Bee C MSM, plus a glass of our homemade colloidal silver (about 10 ppm) and directly afterwards started a tissue regeneration program on the cold laser mode of the Rife Spooky2 machine, which I had just bought for a completely different purpose.

In the evening I returned to the ER and the surgeon smiled (didn’t I say he was wonderful?) – he said it looked very nice (although in my opinion it looked like the fingers of a dying Frankenstein) and gave me 2 more days of hope for a non-transplant.

So for the next 2 days I took the following in excess:

– Anna Bee C MSM (for collagen reconstruction, oxygenation and infection prevention) – probably a glass a day without symptoms of saturation in the form of stomach ailments,

– our handmade ionic silver approx. 10 ppm – 3-4 glasses a day,

– iodine, selenium, Concentrace complex of full-spectrum minerals – as usual, only more, especially more Lugol,

– fermented cod liver oil in capsules,

– evening primrose oil (my BFF for faster skin renewal and reduced inflammation),

– my very strong Bigbanger syrup with propolis, pine extract, garlic, cloves and a whole lot of anti-inflammatory ingredients.

So, in short, I focused on preventing infection and providing the body with materials to rebuild tissue.

In addition, I soaked my fingers in silver with 3 drops of my 10% Lugol’s liquid, lavender essential oil and Concentrace (because oils dissolve nicely in salt water) and continued various tissue regeneration programs using the Spooky2 cold laser.

On my way out from the ER I got a prescription for two antibiotics. I bought a meds, but I decided to postpone the decision to take them until I saw the first symptoms of a possible infection. I’m not a gambler, but with my planned doses of silver, vitamin C, Lugol’s, propolis, there should be no infection.

I’ll keep watch like a hawk and if need by, I’ve got everything at my fingertips.

And this is where our picture series begins (let the weak in spirit close their eyes while reading).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day  2

During the check-up at the clinic, another surgeon says that everything is going in the right direction, but it’s too early to decide about the transplant. He tells to wait another week and prescribes wound dressings with silver and by saying this he immediately wins my heart. He recommends changing them every 2 days, but I use laser therapy and soaking at least 2 times a day, so I weave the ritual of changing the wound dressing into my daily schedule.

At this stage, I take high doses of what I described above and for faster regeneration of nerve connections, I also add a decent B-complex, lecithin and choline.

I also wonder if a sterile silver dressing that I dropped onto the floor is still usable. Cowardly, I decide not to risk it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 4

Friendly souls arrive to help write labels for vinegars, because without my right hand I have trouble writing.

Everything is still healing beautifully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 7

A right-handed person who suddenly becomes left-handed discovers some obvious things that previously went unnoticed. A single hand not only can’t clap, but also can’t cut a bandage, spread butter on bread, paint the eyelashes…

But it can drink a good coffee in a good cafe!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 8 

I discover that obeying surgeons does not always pay off.

Because of laser therapy and soaking in silver, I have so far changed the wound dressings 1-2 times a day, while the recommendation was to change it once every 2 days. Thus far everything has been healing so beautifully that I decided to let it go for one day, I unwrap the bandage and I see that the stitches are covered in green! This meant a quick return to the methods of disinfection known to me for their effectiveness, i.e. soaking the wound in silver and such an amount of Lugol’s solution 10% (about 20 drops per small glass of silver) that my fingers turned black

No matter.

The next day, there was no trace of the pus.

Since that incident, I no longer listen to recommendations, I change dressings – silver or non-silver – at least once a day.

In addition to having to use my left hand, another difficulty are new scabs that are constantly forming, so I am reluctant to unwrap the dressings, because I do not like to re-injure the wounds and tear the sewn-in skin. In this case, however, the knowledge acquired in the ER comes to my aid, where I learned that it’s easiest to unwrap wound dressings after soaking them in hydrogen peroxide, which is perfect for dissolving blood. The paramedics at the ER pour bucketfuls of it and it does dissolve blood beautifully, even the dried blood on the floor (oh yes, I left quite an impression there

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What previously looked like Frankenstein’s work is now really starting to resemble the skin of a human that did not rise from the grave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 12

After the typical indelicate removal of the old dressing performed by the nurse, who clearly hates her work and has made it a point of honor to prove to surgical patients that they are wimps, the surgeon in the clinic whistled with delight and ordered the stitches to be removed. It was supposed to be after a month, but not even two weeks have passed. As far as I know, removing stitches does not hurt so it’ll be over soon. I feel happy until the nurse starts tugging at each thread and (really!) trying to saw it off with a scalpel. Each. Single. Thread. And there are 14 of them on an area of several cm. I complain to her that she could be more gentle but then I just grit my teeth waiting for it to end. Mistake! When she takes off the last one, I suddenly feel like I’m about to pass out, and I’m not the fainting type. Well done, lady! Given the fact that she sat me in front of a huge window through which solar heat was entering and I came straight from a funeral with an empty stomach, it was a perfect combo. I mutter under my breath that I’m about to collapse and the staff suddenly shows a human face. I am escorted to a hospital bed, I am not supposed to get up, but I can have a drink of water. Like in America.

Somehow I got home, but then after a few days I discovered that the nurse had missed one more stitch and I knew that I would sooner bite it out with my third molars than put my life into her tender hands again. I started pulling it out with tweezers, but it wouldn’t budge. There was more and more blood until finally I felt faint again and gave up. I decided that the lady was right after all – I am a wimp. I soaked my hand in silver and resignedly wrapped it in dressing.

Thank God the next day I had an appointment with a gynecologist. I thought – he’s a human being who likes to operate, so he can probably remove stitches as well.

He said he would.

My hand was shaking so much that I turned my head so as not to disturb him. The doctor struggled for a few minutes, and then suddenly it was all over. I DIDN’T FEEL A THING! And as it turned out, this stitch was very deep and tied twice, so the more I tried to pull it out at home, the more I was ripping it out.

So you can remove a difficult stitch without causing pain and you can also make a person’s life miserable with fourteen simple stitches.

I am describing this in such detail for educational purposes and as a warning:

1. count the stitches that they put on or ask the surgeon to count them – this may be important when removing them,
2. protest if you think that the procedure of removing them is sadistic,
3. If the procedure is sadistic, get up and leave – you can go to any private clinic, nurse, gynecologist (sic!) and do it in a humane way, even if you have to pay 100 PLN.

If I had known this earlier, I probably wouldn’t have allowed anyone to torment me.

Day 13

According to the recommendation of the surgeon from the clinic, I incorporate lubrication in my daily wound hygiene to make the scars more elastic.

I prepare a mixture based on cold-pressed, organic hemp and evening primrose oil, with the addition of Copaiba balm, frankincense and lavender oils, which accelerate healing and reduce scars. I keep it in the fridge and lubricate my fingers before each laser therapy (still 2-3 times a day).

In a fit of madness, I also decide to dip my fingers in Anna Bee C syrup: honey is great for wounds (it disinfects and promotes healing), raspberries are used to make face masks, and vitamin C and MSM speak for themselves. The idea turns out to be a home run because after washing off (not licking off!) the syrup, the skin becomes very soft and well moisturized. Then I put on it my hemp mixture, which today I would enrich by adding CBD drops, do a round of laser therapy and wrap it in impressively large band-aids.

Since that moment I wear white puppets on my fingers 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 31

Whether it’s because of the large amounts of iodine or just the healing process, the sewn-in fingertip patches begin to turn into a crust and slowly, painlessly come off, revealing brand-new, healed skin underneath.

I still soak in Anna Bee C syrup, silver, Lugol’s (which turns my fingers yellow and my scabs black ) and treat with a lubricating mixture comprising essential oils. It’s fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 39

The crust is gone, most of the scabs have also fallen off.

The remaining skin is clean, but very swollen.

Fingers are hypersensitive, they hurt when pressed, so most of the tasks of everyday life are still out of the question for now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 50

The swelling does not go down.

The surgeon in the clinic says that it’s fine and tells me to come back in 3 months.

He says that if the swelling does not go down by then, ‘we will see’.

I decide not to ‘see’, but start looking for information on the Internet. I find an American clinic that aids in accepting grafts after burns by using pressure dressings and I start (without much success) to look for suitable band-aids. Every day I wrap my puppets with what I managed to buy and the swelling actually decreases, but shortly after unwrapping it returns to its enormous size.

I keep searching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 57

On the recommendation of my Wise Friends, I go to a Wise Angiologist.

Thewise Angiologist, says that these are severed lymphatic vessels and he highly recommends pressure bandages and for the first time in his life he would recommend leeches. Straight from his office, I go to order compression finger sleeves, for which I wait about two weeks, and then my life becomes much easier.

The sleeves compress everything properly, I can function normally with them on, even swim in the sea, and they look extremely impressive when I put on a blue dress :))))

I’m still considering leeches, maybe I’ll finally give in because it’s supposedly a very good idea.

I also expect that they are more effective earlier after the injury, but this is knowledge for a potential non-future.

The sleeves do work and after 5 months the fingertips are clearly smaller, but the contracture of the fingers does not decrease. An osteopath explains to me that such skin patches are no different from badly sewn patches in clothing – they pull unevenly in strange directions. To complicate matters, it’s no not only the skin that pulls, but also the stitched parts underneath – nerves, muscles, vessels, etc. He recommends buying a super-soft brush and brushing the skin of my fingers in all directions so as to stimulate the reconstruction of collagen connections that form a mesh (hence brushing in different directions). My dentist confirmed that she used this method for her c- section scar and that after a month it looked as if it was already six months old and even became concave.

Okay, I buy the softest toothbrush there is and start caressing.

The first impression is tingling in the distant parts of the hand, actually up to the shoulder. I caress from every side in every direction, also in places where it tingles and goes numb. It turns out to be a very good strategy, because day by day the tingling is less distant, and after a week or so I manage to stretch my fingers without difficulty and pain.

By then, however, I’m so bored with having to use such a small area of bristles that I reach for a baby head brush. And? Bingo! There is probably nothing softer and more effective for surfaces and at the same time reasonably priced.

And all this because this brush stimulation is best when performed often. In real life – if it is to be often, it must be short. And to keep it short, it has to cover everything at once. And there it is. And it works spectacularly.

It’s just been 7 months and I’m still considering leeches

I had to send the sleeves back to the manufacturer because they stretched, but the company is German, decent, so they should send me new ones soon.

I still have trouble carrying heavy things due to the over-sensitivity of two fingers.

I should keep brushing them, but I forget because my fingers stretch fully and I rarely remember.

As for new discoveries – I lubricate my fingertips with 10% CBD oil (and sometimes 30% CBD paste) to accelerate the regeneration of nerve connections. The general feeling when touching the skin patches resembles touching a huge blister caused by the rubbing of the skin on your foot, but I am starting to feel the skin on the surface slightly, which is an unexpected change.

 

 

I’ll also try:

1. normobaric chamber (it has excellent reviews in terms of accelerating regeneration processes),
2. Chinese acupuncture,
3. and those scary leeches 

I will keep you updated!

And when I was trying on the new, smaller finger pressure sleeves (https://www.medi-polska.pl/), the nurse couldn’t stop admiring how beautifully it all healed and how beautifully the swelling shrinks. I also have the impression that I am slowly starting to regain feeling in my skin patches. So it seems that my crazy treatments are not entirely pointless after all

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How to quickly beat viruses at the beginning of an infection?
In short:
1. on the first symptoms, take: 1 teaspoon of Anna’s Bee C (1,000 mg vitamin C) every 30 minutes to bowel tolerance;
2. having reached the maximum dose: 1 teaspoon every hour or 1/2 teaspoon every 30 minutes;
3. after all symptoms pass: keep the dose moderately high for at least 2-3 days, otherwise the infection might quickly return.

When it comes to small kids (children younger that 12 months should not eat honey) can take half of that dose, but as ofetn as described above. Vitamin C serum level drops by 50% every hour, so in order to keep it optimally high, it’s most effective to keep adding small but frequent doses.

The point of bowel tolerance (sign of serum saturation) depends on the actual condition of the organism and may drastically differ from infection to infection, even in the same person. My stomach can start gurgling after 6 grams one day, and be absolutely still after 16,000 mg with the next infection! You can’t predict that, you can only experiment.

With such an effective counterattack, viruses are usually withdrawing within a day.
When it comes to a more vicious virus than that of common cold (like chickenpox or HFMD) our kids were well after 72 hours. So it’s really worth starting the fight as early as possible and with unshaken relentlessness.

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But I’ve found a way. Not a panaceum, but it helps enough so our children get sick less often and for a much shorter time. Think about it – if you can cut the infection within a day, it’s a good enough solution, isn’t it? And if you can shorten the already blown illness to 2-3 days, it’s not bad, right?
So I do this:
AS PREVENTION I give my kids a few grams of vitamin C per day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, like it is in nature, without a crazy regime. A splash of Anna’s Bee C into a glass of cool juice/tea/sparkling water twice a day and there it is. As long as the general rule of ‘as many grams as years’ and ‘every adult resident of a polluted city should take at least 4,000 mg of vitamin C per day’ is on the horizon, it’s a good direction. Mind you, I don’t give my teenagers 15000 mg per day, because I don’t feel it’s prophylactically necessary.
Let’s say that as prevention I give my younger kids roughly 2,000 mg vit c per day and 4,000 mg to my teenagers.
I up the dose in times of widespread infections – I watch their reactions and draw conclusions. There’s no iron rule here – mom’s knowledge of her own children, intuition and observation are the best guide.

VIAMIN C DOSAGE ON THE FIRST SIGNS OF INFECTION
At the beginning of an infection, however, the rule becomes strict, no matter the age: 1 teaspoon of Anna’s Bee C every 30 minutes for a start, until bowel tolerance shows the saturation point (you can halve the dose for smaller kids).
The point of vitamin C saturation in the body is indicated by the digestive tract’s response – when the stomach starts growling like a mad dog, bowels gurgle or you get a diarrhea it’s a sign that the kidneys can no longer catch up with the excess of ascorbic acid in your system and the intestines come to aid. And it’s actually a good sign. It means that you’ve reached a maximum level of vitamin C in your bloodstream – antioxidants help fight off viruses, speed up the process of regeneration and coming around.
At this point we halve the dose: either by taking half as much of the syrup or taking it half as often. So if you’ve been giving your child 1 gram of vitamin C every 30 minutes (literally with alarm on), now you give them either 1 gram every or 500 mg every 30 minutes. From now on the diarrhea doesn’t bother us, but we watch the child like a hawk and concentrate on proper hydration. Within a few more hours the symptoms should start going away, but we never-ever stop taking vitamin C immediately after we feel good, because our body needs extra stock of vitamin c to regenerate and strengthen. We keep giving the syrup in a larger-than-everyday dose still for at least a day or two, so that the virus can’t easily come back and ruin our spirits.

VITAMIN C DOSAGE IN A FULL-BLOWN INFECTION
It’s not as easy when you begin fighting a few hours or even a few days after infection struck. The later you start your counterattack, the longer the fight, but in any case you still can usually cut the illness by half! The additional bonus is that you can avoid post viral complications, so it’s a win-win situation.

Of course, there might come a time when it’s all insufficient and you finally need to go to the doctor. It’s life, not a fairy tale. That’s why I can’t stress enough how important observation and sound mind is. I, however, no longer run to the clinic every time my kids have a running nose, or I’d have to start a camp in the waiting room If I can quickly do the counterattack at home, I do that. And it really works great.

There’s a saying that a treated cold lasts seven days, and untreated – a week, but our colds no longer last beyond 3. We haven’t seen a doctor in a long while, we haven’t been to the hospital for even longer.

Of course, I do more things to keep my family generally healthy, but this one vitamin c thing brought our life comfort to such a level I didn’t expect was even achievable to us. It also saved us a ton of money not paid for doctor’s visits, tests, prescription drugs, hospital visits and absence from work.
It’s definitely worth it.

• Anna's Bee C 81,00 zł – 143,00 zł