Oh, and I should add there is is also Citrus Allergy which is different. Perhaps some people here are only allergic to citrus and maybe allergic enough that anything extracted from it makes them react. You'll note in the Citric Acid Intolerance wiki article, it also mentions an allergy to a type of fungus citric acid is extracted from, so some here might have that too. I could imagine it would be possible to have both the fungus allergy and the Citrus one and therefore react to all sources of it.
To the person who is allergic to the smell, that sounds like Citrus Allergy, as there is no Vitamin C/citric acid in the aroma, but the constituent of citrus people with Citrus Allergy are allergic to is in the aroma an orange gives off and the essential oil. That's not to say you aren't also intolerant of citric acid or other components.
To the person who is allergic to the smell, that sounds like Citrus Allergy, as there is no Vitamin C/citric acid in the aroma, but the constituent of citrus people with Citrus Allergy are allergic to is in the aroma an orange gives off and the essential oil. That's not to say you aren't also intolerant of citric acid or other components.
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If I take vitamin pills I get canker soares in my mouth
I do not think it is the vitamin C alone as I can eat tomoatoes and oranges frequently with no ill effect .. but if I take a multi vitamin every day ... within a week I will get a canker sore ...
I do not think it is the vitamin C alone as I can eat tomoatoes and oranges frequently with no ill effect .. but if I take a multi vitamin every day ... within a week I will get a canker sore ...
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I'm so glad I found this post! I'm 37 years old and for the past 5+ years, I thought I was allergic to something in citrus fruit. Every time I'd eat oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, lemons, limes, strawberries, etc. I'd end up with canker sores in my mouth almost immediately, so I basically stopped eating fruit and have been symptom-free. This past weekend, I started a new multivitamin with extra Vitamin C in it and woke up Sunday to the mother of all canker sores on my tongue. I'm very curious to see what others have done to counteract this kind of allergy. Thanks again!
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An apple a day will keep the doctor away...so they say. Well, may be so for some; but I certainly can't handle two because like my binging on orange juice, it invariably brings me sores inside my mouth. I've toned down to eating one apple a day now and I'm still plagued with these mouth sores which I know will disapear as soon as I stop consuming any such notable vitamin c source. So there it is folks, you're definitely not alone on this vitamin c allergy curse.
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I am 44 years old and figured out my allergy to Vitamin C in my early 20's after getting Canker Sores in my mouth immediatly following a non Buffered Multi Vitamin. Buffered Multi's or Buffered Vitamin C was OK but now I have given up Vitamins all together except Vitamin E. I recently got a sore throat and was given sore throat drops with Vitamin C! I used 15 or 20 of these losengers over the course of 1 day only to wake up with severe Canker Sores and from there it got worse. I stopped using the Losengers, but now 2 days later have started getting stinging at the tips of my fingers and toes and on the bottom of my feet. It's a little painfull to walk, type open a Soda etc. I have also niticed my skin has become very dry including the skin on my elbows as mentioned before by someone. AS also mentioned before, all the Doctors I have spoken to have no idea what I'm talking about. I heard Yogurt can help with the Canker Sores but have no idea if it's true. Does anyone else have the stinging in toes and fingers? That is new for me and really troublesome. TIA
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hi my name is mikheil and i am allergic on Vitamin C i am 100% sure
the way my doctor gat this was i was always seek, when i was a few months old i was seek and the doctor decided to support my body with vitamin shots, suddenly i goat allergic reaction on vitamin c the doctor gived me shoot of prednisolone (prednisolone it is hormone the doctors are using it in emergency situation as against allergy), i survived with no problems.
second time was at somewhere at age 4-6 again i was seek and again the doctor decided to help my body and they stared by vitamins my mother forget about first one and she did not mentioned to the doctor
when they doctor did vitamin c shoot my nose started to become blueish after few second my hurt stooped i was clinical dead and by my mothers bravery i survived the doctor goat in panic and the my mother was norse in that hospital she told the norsees to not to come out from the blood vein and she runed down to the pharmacy to goat prednisolone and my mother with her hands gaved me the prednisolone shoot in to the Catheter and they revived me with few minutes of C.P.R
right know i am age 21 and am not seek like i was always but i am steel allergic to vitamin c the thing i lerned buy my experience is my body steel need vitamin c like others but there is limit really small i do not know exactly the my limit of "C" but i can eat like a few hole lemons throw the month and i will not have any allergic reaction but if i eat one lemon in one day i will be etching really hard
the way my doctor gat this was i was always seek, when i was a few months old i was seek and the doctor decided to support my body with vitamin shots, suddenly i goat allergic reaction on vitamin c the doctor gived me shoot of prednisolone (prednisolone it is hormone the doctors are using it in emergency situation as against allergy), i survived with no problems.
second time was at somewhere at age 4-6 again i was seek and again the doctor decided to help my body and they stared by vitamins my mother forget about first one and she did not mentioned to the doctor
when they doctor did vitamin c shoot my nose started to become blueish after few second my hurt stooped i was clinical dead and by my mothers bravery i survived the doctor goat in panic and the my mother was norse in that hospital she told the norsees to not to come out from the blood vein and she runed down to the pharmacy to goat prednisolone and my mother with her hands gaved me the prednisolone shoot in to the Catheter and they revived me with few minutes of C.P.R
right know i am age 21 and am not seek like i was always but i am steel allergic to vitamin c the thing i lerned buy my experience is my body steel need vitamin c like others but there is limit really small i do not know exactly the my limit of "C" but i can eat like a few hole lemons throw the month and i will not have any allergic reaction but if i eat one lemon in one day i will be etching really hard
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So Mikheil how do you know how much to take per day? Do you usually just eat without concentrating on getting vitamin C and trust that you get enough in your diet? Let me know.
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am sorry but i cant tell you how much I or You can take per day because it depends on how much vitamin C is in my or your body
and one more time sorry but i do not think there is portable machine(like a Blood Glucose Monitoring System) that can tell you how much vitamin C is in your or blood.
what i do is trying to cat down vitamin C as much as possible but my temptation to sour things are wild and that helps me to goat vitamin C all i need.
sorry for bad English
if you just discover that you are allergic to vitamin C and right now you have allergic reaction i recommend to cat down all fruits and go on diet for week 1 or 2 do not eat fruits and vegetables eat things like pasta meet and things that cant have vitamin C
and one more time sorry but i do not think there is portable machine(like a Blood Glucose Monitoring System) that can tell you how much vitamin C is in your or blood.
what i do is trying to cat down vitamin C as much as possible but my temptation to sour things are wild and that helps me to goat vitamin C all i need.
sorry for bad English
if you just discover that you are allergic to vitamin C and right now you have allergic reaction i recommend to cat down all fruits and go on diet for week 1 or 2 do not eat fruits and vegetables eat things like pasta meet and things that cant have vitamin C
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Please keep this post alive. I think I may have an allergy or intolerance to vitamin C, or something related and I need more very important and valued experiences from peers (as it seems the medical community is generally ignorant of this problem)
I will post my own experiences and soon to be experiments about this subject as soon as I can deduct my own issues from reading about others.
kersasylvanhart @ yahoo . com - Please contact me if anyone can help or would like to share information. BTW my own problem is a HORRIBLY itchy rash on the inside of my elbows, and my face turns blush red and I get hot, like as if I am experiencing a temporary fever.
I will post my own experiences and soon to be experiments about this subject as soon as I can deduct my own issues from reading about others.
kersasylvanhart @ yahoo . com - Please contact me if anyone can help or would like to share information. BTW my own problem is a HORRIBLY itchy rash on the inside of my elbows, and my face turns blush red and I get hot, like as if I am experiencing a temporary fever.
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I used to think that I might be having reactions to vitamin c, because whenever I would have lemon with my water in a restaurant, or if I ate tomatoes I would break out with hives and my vision would blur. I now think that I'm having these reactions to citric acid.
I found an article about citric acid here:
In it, there's a link to this website:
The article states that in 2007, 3.4 BILLION pounds of citric acid was made, half of which was put into food.
I use Hydrocortizone cream whenever I have an outbreak on my skin. It helps, but it's not a cure, nor does it help with my blurred vision and intestinal cramps (kind of a horrible twitching).
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I found an article about citric acid here:
In it, there's a link to this website:
The article states that in 2007, 3.4 BILLION pounds of citric acid was made, half of which was put into food.
I use Hydrocortizone cream whenever I have an outbreak on my skin. It helps, but it's not a cure, nor does it help with my blurred vision and intestinal cramps (kind of a horrible twitching).
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GO TO NAET.COM FIND A PROVIDER AND LET THEM TAKE CARE OF YOUR VITAMIN C ALLERGY. I HAVE BEEN TESTED AND TREATED. A MIRACLE.
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I don't know if it is possible to be allergic to vitamin C, however I do know that pineapple and kiwis in large amounts are not the best thing for you to eat. First of all, both contain high levels of an enzyme that breaks down proteins. An example of this would be in your mouth, I am allergic to Kiwi, Pineapple and Oranges, so naturally I am Vitamin C deficient. But anyway, in large quantities, this can cause a raw feeling in your mouth, I have had this happen which persisted for about a week, making it painful to drink or eat anything and my lips were swollen as well. However, the severity of this was due to my allergies.
Also, living on a diet consisting only of high levels of Vitamin C is pointless. Once your body reaches the 100% amount that it needs for the day, the rest is simply just passed through your system and not absorbed. One cannot live on a diet of just fruit because it does not supply all of the necessary nutrients and minerals needed to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and fad diets are not a wise idea.
Also, living on a diet consisting only of high levels of Vitamin C is pointless. Once your body reaches the 100% amount that it needs for the day, the rest is simply just passed through your system and not absorbed. One cannot live on a diet of just fruit because it does not supply all of the necessary nutrients and minerals needed to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and fad diets are not a wise idea.
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I have suspected for some years that maybe vitamin c was responsible for bringing me out in rashes. It only happened when I was about 30 for the first time. I was in Laos when my lip swelled enormously! I looked like prof CLUMP! Then a week later it happened again on the other lip. Then again above my eye and again on my cheek, each time the swelling was less. I made a tenuous conection with Mango at the time. Ever since then I have come out with the occasional swelling, and have on some occasions made conections to fruit. Recently I watched a programme about the huge benifits of taking vitamin c to keep you healthy. So I started to take Rosa Camina ( in ITALY ) with a high vitamin c content and eating lots of oranges. Now i have an ever increasing sore throat, and have developed a blistery kind of rash on my hands that is itchy and consists of many little bumps full of fluid. I have had this rash before and had been told it was a fungal infection, I had never made the connection with vitamin c. Still dont know if there is a connection!? Any ideas?
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Yep. I lost my top front teeth to vitamin c. My gums swelled up and popped the teeth out. So now i have a bridge. I grew up suffering swellings and such but at the time doctors said it could NOT be vitamin c because "no one can be allergic to it, it is water soluble". So 30 years later...no teeth. I suggest anyone who feels even a trembling in the lips or anywhere after eating vit c see a doctor pretty darn quick. o.O
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I also have an allergy to vitamin C, but i go into anaphylactic shock and will die if not treated immediately. I was diagnosed at 3yrs old. I have to keep an epi-pen with me all of the time. No chance of me getting scurvy either.
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