Vitamin C & Kidney Stones

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Here is the text from an article in Bottom Line Personal that I just read by

Professor of Human Nutrition at Washington State University in Spokane. She was

leader of a 48 person study in which participants took 2,000 mg of Vitamin C for

6 days. (These people did not have CMT) The article is published in the Journal

of Human Nutrition.

" Vitamin C in high doses may cause kidney stones, says Massey,

Phd. Recent finding: People who took 2,000 milligrams (mg) of

vitamin C per day - many times higher than the recommended daily

intake - for six days had a 10% or more increase in levels of urinary

oxalate, a building block of kidney stones. If you want to take a

vitamin C supplement, keep the dosage under 500 mg a day to minimize

risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones. "

My question is, have any of you who have been taking high doses of

Vitamin C ever had any problems with kidney stones?

Mike