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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Well, I've been off wheat for 17 days and my eczema has gone from bloody, cracking and unbearable with loads of daily Vit C to help me maintain some normal life (10 000mg) to manageable with less Vit C (6 000mg) to finally healing and slowly going away (4 000mg). I can see it healing from the inside out as my skin slowly sheds away the outer rash naturally. I look forward to using less Vit C.
However, it could be a carbohydrate issue as well. The body converting the sugars in bread and other simple carb foods that cause the auto-immune disease eczema. So I'm certainly curious.
One fact is that as a society we need less "ulterior motive" studies for diet and I'd need to see a lot more studies before I'd believe this over my own bodies reaction from less wheat.
However, if one of my friends roll their eyes at me for ordering less wheat in my foods it's a clear indication that they're an ass-hat and I need to find better friends. Eczema is a real bitch.
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Sorry. What. You were taking 5 times the safe upper limit of Vitamin C a day ?
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Life Stage Upper Safe Limit
Birth to 12 months Not established
Children 1–3 years 400 mg
Children 4–8 years 650 mg
Children 9–13 years 1,200 mg
Teens 14–18 years 1,800 mg
Adults 2,000 mg
"Can vitamin C be harmful?
Taking too much vitamin C can cause diarrhea, nausea, and stomach cramps. In people with a condition called hemochromatosis, which causes the body to store too much iron, high doses of vitamin C could worsen iron overload and damage body tissues"
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-QuickFacts/
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At best you were just making your pee more expensive by taking that much vitamin C.
The "some vitamins are good for me, therefore lots of vitamins must be great for me" thought process is insanity.