I started to give my daughter Algin about 2 weeks ago. I saw some definite progress. Then this week I added some Vitamin C powder & mixed it into a glass of water.

Now she has started to regress. She has increased anxiety, very moody, rushing through everything she does, can't slow her down, problems in school, etc.

Tonight during our Thanksgiving dinner, it was like she was bouncing off the walls. She reminded me of someone who just ingested a pound of candy.

She does not have any sweets. The Vitamin C has no sweeteners whatsoever. Could she be having a reaction to the Vitamin C? Or could it be something else?

Thanks!

I have never heard of any side effect from vitamin C other than it can give you diarhea if you take too much. You might want to take her off of it though and see if you notice any changes. Have you changed anything else in her diet or has she been exposed to anything new?

I took her off the Vitamin C starting Friday morning. She became more calmer & happier.

There was nothing changed in her diet beforehand. I was wondering if it could be a reaction to the citric acid?

I meant to say absorbic acid.

LynnR,
I just read in Dr. Hulda Clark's book, "A Cure for All Cancers" that she tested most vitamin C supplements as containing 'Thulium" -- a toxic element. Some of us can detox it- but your daughter's liver may be over-taxed and not be able to detox it as quickly.

Thulium isnt good for any of us. The only reason it is in most Vitamin C supplements is because of processing. It isnt naturally in Vitamin C.

Dr. Hulda found that Bronson's vitamin C supplements tested okay.

In any case, try to get her to eat the most natural form of Vitamin C as possible-- probably fresh organic fruit high in Vitamin C daily.
Maybe in her case- you may have to.

I have not heard of other side-effects of vitamin C either. I would search for another cause, perhaps something that happens to be ingested at or near the same time. Food allergies can cause this type of behavior as well.

Though I know that vitamin C does not directly chelate mercury, I used to get a weird reaction to it that would bring on further mercury symptoms. Everytime I took it, they'd come up and I gather it was because the mercury in me was more readily available and the vitamin C perhaps helped increase the glutathione levels in my body, which then enabled me to detox a bit easier, hence the increased symptoms. I don't get this now because I'm much sicker and the mercury is not wher eit used to be (repoisoned, and other health issues).

I actually had to lower the dose of vitamin C (back when it would do that to me), or stop and wait for the symptoms to die down a bit and then try again. It did actually help me alot then to push some of the available mercury out more. It doesn't chelate, but obviously if the mercury has already been pulled into available tissues by some other means (for me it was a DMPS injection), then it doesn't take much to encourage further excretion. It was coming out of the pores of my skin also and causing the mercury rash. I didn't need to chelate at that stage because anything would increase the detox very easily. Selenium, vitamin C, vitamin E. Not chelating agents at all, but obviously they do help and encourage/support detox.

However, it's possible that your daughter is reactive with an agent in the vitamin C itself too. Very hard to tell. Do her symptoms appear to be an increase of what she already suffers? If so, then it's possible the vitamin C is actually encouraging some type of detoxing and increasing symptoms. But I would just try very small doses or something and watch what happens. Other than that, I'd just not let her take it again. Try another kind or something if it seems to be an allergy or intolerance.

Copper and mercury have similiar symptoms. Vitamin C is the #1 chelator of copper and your body can go into a copper dump just like mercury, very likely this is a explanation as vitamin C is probably one of the safest vitamins you can take with people consuming 30 grams 30,000 miligrams daily without problems.

In addition according to Cutler you cannot tell the difference between mercury poisining and copper.