What type of vitamin C for allergies?
The author found that administration of 1-2 g/day of ascorbic acid was often beneficial in the treatment of various allergy-related symptoms. However, some individuals showed only a moderate response or no improvement at all. In some of these patients, sodium ascorbate (2 g/day) was more effective than ascorbic acid. In addition, the incidence of gastric irritation was less with sodium ascorbate than with ascorbic acid. Increased diuresis was nearly always seen after treatment with sodium ascorbate. Several patients with intractable asthma who had been refractory to almost all treatments remained free of asthma with continuous sodium ascorbate treatment. Patients with seasonal hay fever did particularly well. COMMENT: Vitamin C has long been known to relieve some of the symptoms of allergies. However it is not widely appreciated that sodium ascorbate is more effective than ascorbic acid for some patients. I have therefore resurrected this old report on its 50th anniversary. There is so
