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The human body requires nutrients for its survival, including vitamins. One of them is vitamin C. Vitamin C plays important role to reinforce the walls of blood vessels, so as to prevent canker sores, hemorrhoids, or varicose veins. Vitamin C also plays a role in wound healing and immunity against infection and stress.
Vitamin C needs of children under-five is 20 mg / day, and adult 85 mg / day, the highest demand is in pregnant women is 120 mg / day. We can get vitamin c by consume vegetables and fruits.
Consumption of high doses of vitamin C will have an impact not good for the body. Too much vitamin C will cause pain in the stomach and cause diarrhea. This is because vitamin C is acidic. The second bad result is the accumulation of kidney stones are calcium oxalate crystals, which are produced by the reaction between oxalic acid, ascorbic fraction of compound excreted in the urine, with calcium.
Excess consumption of vitamin C can also lead to vitamin B12 deficiency because vitamin C can convert into vitamin B12 analogues in part, even one of the analog-analogues are anti-vitamin B12. If vitamin C is consumed by the dose that is too large beyond the requirement, it will produce so many radical antioxidant vitamin C will turn into a pro-oxidant.
Vitamin C is very important needed the body, but consume it with correct dosage is adjusted in order to work optimally. Consumption of vitamin C in large numbers should only be done in a period of healing and not done routinely. Do not consume excessive because it is not good for health is also a waste of money.
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