Saturday, August 21, 2010

Intravenous Vit C at very high levels brings New Zealand man out of a Coma after the doctors had given up on him and were ready to turn life support off - a year later he is alive and well.

This was an issue I deal with in my book " Without Due Care"

In my husband's case the pharmacist at the hospital okayed IV Vit C for Don but the ICU specialist refused to allow it to be used. While it may not have saved Don’s life it would have alleviated his brutal suffering; Vit C would have helped him - I know this!!!He died in misery and with brutality. The symptoms that made his suffering worse would have been alleviated by the IV Vit C we asked for him to have. I found out later after Don died that the ICU doctor involved did not have the legal right to refuse the treatment we asked for which was okayed by the pharmacist - the ICU specialist laughingly claimed thet IV Vit C at the levels we asked for might give Don kidney stones - what a nonsense...he'd been taking the stuff for 25 years at really high doses and not a stone in sight - and as he was clearly dying kidney stones were the last of his worries...this story from New Zealand only goes to show what a help it might have been - but then the Pharmaceutical companies can nt patent Vit C...and only a very few doctors will credit it for its marvellous properties when given at the right doses...

Our daughter Alison had this treatment weekly for two years for another condition - and it helped her as she recovered form a multiple of issues which saw her almost unable to look after herself. She slowly recovered. Alongside her were others who were going through Chemotherapy and were having the IV Vit C...it did help them overcome the dreadful side effects of Chemo in that she said they seldom experienced nausea and other drastic symptoms of the Chemotherapy regime.

Watch the link first before the you tube -

http://www.3news.co.nz/A-familys-fight-for-a-dying-man-/tabid/367/articleID/171552/Default.aspx

3 comments:

Anne said...

This is something we've been looking into. Our oncologist has strongly advised us againes it saying there is NO evidence it helps and that they administered it in 2007 to a patient who died as a restul? Still getting all the info we can. There is nowhere to our knowledge in ou city where it can be administered and as my man is no longer hospital care that is not an option......

Anne said...

Ooops - should proof read the above, the rugby is on in a couple of minutes and I was typing in a rush.....

Middle Child said...

Anne - I won't gainsay your doctor, but if anyone anywhere in the world can show me one person who has died as a result of Vitamin c either orally or via IV i will eat my hat. They are bitterly opposed to it. In our case, it was not going to save Don's life - the dopctors had destroyed his lungs with their carelessness but it would have most likely helped prevent the dreadfuyl infections which invaded his body top to toe but mainly the MRSA and Klebsiella Pneumonia which made his dying worse. I don't think that the issue of kidney stones for s dying man was an issue - and it certainly would have done no harm...he wanted it and he had the right.

I would not presume to advise anyone else or to set them on a chase after something which in their case may or may not help - this was done to my sister in law when she had cancer - all these ratbags came out of the woodworks with fals hope and open plams and it unsetteld what should have been a peaceful time for her but the story about the Kiwi man's total recovery from a coma can not be expalianed by the doctors saying he came to because them turned him over - that is just bull - why didn't they do that as a matter of course anywhay for pressure care?
In our case the hospital pharmacise was helpful and hopeful he would have the IV C which we had a medic's instructions on how much to give all of thet - it was ICU doctor's pigheadedness which brought all that to a hault = she was quite happy to let him suffer some of her less merciful ministrations in other areas.