high vitamin c thickening the intestine wall in chronns

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This information may apply more to crohn's sufferers than any other,

you

be the judge. It was discovered I was a tad anemic, so the doc gave

me

some ferrous sulfate. Along with this I took extra vitamin C to help

the absorption of the iron. After about two months of taking 2-3

thousand milligrams of C/day, my conditioned seemed to be dwindling.

Now, maybe the following information is common knowledge to some of

you

but it was a revelation to me. Apparently the walls of crohn's

infected

intestines thicken as time goes on. This is caused by an

overproduction

of collagen in the area. Vitamin C feeds collagen. I was a smoker

and

my crohn's did not kick in until after I quit smoking. (Smoking

depletes 100 mg of C / cigarette). Smokers grow older in appearance

quickly mainly because of the lack of collagen development through the

depletion of vitamin C by smoking. Does any one know of anyone who

has

started smoking after a resection? Did the crohn's stay in remission?

Just curious! I thought this information might be nice to share.'

i wonder if the ferrous sulphate as a non haem form of iron also

contributed to the decline of his condition?

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