This Has Got to Be a Coincidence, Right? Right? Posted: 05-17-05 08:39am
A few weeks ago, my hubby & I decided
that it was time for us to start taking
better care of ourselves. We started
eating healthier and we started taking
daily vitamin supplements.
About a week into it, we were out to
dinner with my brother-in-law and his
wife. My hubby brought up the topic of
vitamins and admitted that he's already
feeling much better now that we're eating
right and getting a healthy dose of
vitamins in our diet. My sister-in-law
replied by mentioning that they had gotten
into a "health kick" a few months back.
She went on to say that they had started
taking vitamins just like us. And what
happened? They both got sick. Cold
symptoms that lasted two weeks.
Eventually, they stopped taking their
vitamins and sure enough, they both
started to feel better.
Two days after this conversation, I came
down with a nasty cold! Sure enough, it
sounded like the same situation
sister-in-law had described. And I have
officially had this cold for a week now.
I have a hard time believing (a very hard
time, in fact) that vitamins can make you
sick in this particular way. Yet I find
myself asking this crazy question...
This vitamin situation that i'm in is a
total coincidence, right? Sister-in-law
starts taking vitamins and then comes down
w/ a cold she can't shake until she stops
taking vitamins. I start taking vitamins
and now I have a cold.
Its gotta be a coincidence.
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 05-17-05 10:04am
There is no evidence to substantiate added
or increased illness from the taking of a
normal once daily multivitamin
supplement.
If by some chance they were taking
"mega-dose" vitamins, than yes it is very
possible to get ill because the fat
souluable vitamins build up within the
body's fat cells and become toxic in some
cases. Also some water soluable vitamins
such as vitamin c in large doses has been
linked to severe diareaha as well as
vomiting becuase the body cannot absorb
these massive doses of vitamin and there
is nothing to substantiate the need to
take mega-doses.
From my own experience and this is not
scientific so I make no miracle claims, I
have not been sick in 3 years since I
started taking "one-a-day" mens health
formula and I also quit smoking 3 years
ago. I feel that both of those life
changes have helped me to stay healthy.
It will never be a valuable argument to
debate the usefulness of vitamins to those
that believe they have been made ill by
them. Do your own research on the
usefullness of vitamin supplements along
with a healthy, well balanced diet and
that will be proof enough.
Start your research on the government
websites such as the fda and usda websites
and try to avoid any site that is funded
by a supplier of supplements as your proof
because the info will be tilted towards a
particular product for profit not for
health.
Good luck and keep on being healthy!!
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Wubba1108
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 2
Posted: 05-18-05 07:59am
Thanks for the reply.
No worries. I'm smart enough to know
that "no, you cannot get a cold (stuffy
nose, coughing, sneezing, etc) from
vitamins."
it just seemed like a rather coincidental
situation.
Fortunately, all those nasty side effects
you spoke of are not the case for me.
Aside for a stuffy nose and the fact that
I can't leave the house w/out kleenex,
everything else is in normal working
order.
Just binding my time until my immune
system finishes kicking this nasty bug to
the curb.
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 05-18-05 08:59am
Excellent and good health to you! You
should be feeling great in no time and the
longer you take your multi-vitamin the
better it will be for your body.
Especially if you are a woman of
childbearing age! You should always be
taking a multi-vitamin along with a folic
acid supplement to avoid the possibility
of nural-tube defects and spinabifida.
