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- More recently, vitamin C has emerged as a potential therapeutic agent to treat sepsis. Vitamin C has been shown to be deficient in septic patients and the administration of high dose intravenous as opposed to oral vitamin C leads to markedly improved and elevated serum levels.
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Jun 15, 2022 · In adults with sepsis receiving vasopressor therapy in the ICU, those who received intravenous vitamin C had a higher risk of death or persistent organ dysfunction at 28 days than those who...
Nov 11, 2022 · Vitamin C has been shown to have several biological actions, including anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects, which may prove beneficial in sepsis management. Initial trials showed improved patient outcomes when high dose vitamin C was used in combination with thiamine and hydrocortisone.
Jan 24, 2023 · Finding effective treatment is the key to cure sepsis. Studies have shown a lower level of vitamin C in patients with sepsis. Therefore, vitamin C supplementation has become one of the measures to treat sepsis. However, the clinical studies of vitamin C in the treatment of sepsis have been controversial.
- 10.1155/2023/6733465
- 2023
- Int J Clin Pract. 2023; 2023: 6733465.
Jan 22, 2020 · Vitamin C has been shown to be deficient in septic patients and the administration of high dose intravenous as opposed to oral vitamin C leads to markedly improved and elevated serum levels. Its physiologic role in sepsis includes attenuating oxidative stress and inflammation, improving vasopressor synthesis, enhancing immune cell function ...
- Markos G. Kashiouris, Michael L’Heureux, Casey A. Cable, Bernard J. Fisher, Stefan W. Leichtle, Alph...
- 10.3390/nu12020292
- 2020
- Nutrients. 2020 Feb; 12(2): 292.
Jul 5, 2021 · Results: The most commonly used vitamin C dosing in sepsis and septic shock is 1.5 g every 6 hours with and without thiamine and hydrocortisone. Current literature is limited because of heterogeneity in vitamin C regimen used, initiation time, and duration of treatment.
- Mahmoud A Ammar, Abdalla A Ammar, Melanie S Condeni, Carolyn M Bell
- 2021
Vitamin C in Sepsis. To the Editor: We read with interest the original article by Iglesias et al published in CHEST (July 2020) who found a significant reduction in the duration of vasopressor use with hydrocortisone, ascorbic acid (or vitamin C), and thiamine (HAT) therapy in sepsis.
Aug 1, 2022 · Vitamin C is a major anti-oxidant with additional pleiotropic anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and immunomodulatory effects that becomes depleted in response to oxidative stress, providing a...
