• Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s important to remember that you’re also talking about maybe or maybe not receiving an experimental, unproven treatment that has the potential to make things worse rather than better. If that’s the case, you’d be happy to be the one receiving placebo.

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      1 year ago

      It’s just a concentrated high dose of vitamin c, though. It’s already used for other things and deemed safe. You can just buy it off Amazon.

      So in the case of most trials, I’d agree. Less so with this trial, though.

      Also, the article is pretty vague on the details of how much help it really wound up being.

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        Oh, that in no way means it’s not going to be harmful in the context of life-threatening sepsis. One of the things the study authors checked for is evidence of oxalate crystals forming in the kidneys because high dose vitamin C can cause kidney stones.

        In healthy kidneys, that’s a survivable inconvenience. In a severely septic patient? Their kidneys are already not working. That could shut them down completely.

        (I’m a critical care nurse. First thing I wondered about was kidney stones.)