Vitamin A - birth defects

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Hi ,

Noticing your age, I just wanted to warn you and other women against Vitamin A

who are thinking of having children. It has been proven to cause serious birth

defects. As has roaccutane since its Vitamin A based as well. The average

dermatologist doesn't explain this properly when recommending Vitamin A or

roaccutane - for roaccutane most say " Oh you can get pregnant 6 mths after a

round " - but others say you're looking at at least 5 years. Vitamin A is fat

soluble - meaning it builds up, and is not washed out daily like water soluble

vitamins such as Vitamin C - so if you get too much in your system in won't just

go away. Its too bad as Vitamin A is key to healthy skin - but I would

recommend avoiding supplements and going for natural sources like carrots, etc,

so you avoid this risk.

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Message: 15

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:12:28 EST

From: 5433@...

Subject: Re: teeth discoloration

Edith,

Don't worry about it. I am 30 also and keep wishing I was just

dreaming. I take a ton of pills everyday too. Between the minocycline and the

oil pills and vitamin C and vitamin A and acidophilus to counter act the

antibiotics and my pills for migraines I estimate I take about 10 pills a day

or more sometimes. I sometimes feel this is crazy I shouldn't have to do this

at my age. But then I think about my mom who always had one ailment or

another and was always taking pills for as long as I can remember. She is

almost 70 now and seems to get over everything she comes into contact with.

So I guess I just take after her. Some of us are healthy naturally and some

of us have to take suppliments to be healthy. Don't worry about driving

people crazy all you're doing is expressing your emotions and trying to get

help. If that isn't what this room is for I don't know what it's for then

because that is why I am here. I think it's good because I know from my

experience I think I drive people in my life crazy talking and worrying about

it all the time and this is a place I can go to talk about it with other

people who can understand and I can just vent about it so go ahead and vent

to us it's what we are here for. I am sure I speak for alot of people when I

say if they have a question or something wierd that is going on with

themselves or need some advise about this disease all you have to do is post

and you usually get an answer. If you worry too much about driving people

crazy or asking too many questions we will never get to the bottom of the

disease. I don't think anyone who ever came up with a cure for anything was

worried about asking questions. Not that any of us will come up with a cure

but we sure won't make any progress if we don't ask questions.

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