title: [Vitamin C].
abstract: Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin which is mainly fresh fruits and vegetables foodborne. Vitamin C deficiency is most often due to a lack of daily amount. Scurvy is characterized by the occurrence of fatigue, myalgia, arthralgia, purpura, bleeding disorders, and later by dental manifestations. Biological signs are nonspecific: anemia, hypocholesterolemia, hypoalbuminemia. Clinical suspicion is confirmed by the decrease in ascorbic acid level (< 2 mg/L). It must be interpreted in light of the acute phase reactants. The treatment is the administration of 1 g of vitamin C per day for 15 days. Vitamin C depletion (ascorbic acid: 2 to 5 mg/L) could induce long-term complications. The recommended dietary allowance of vitamin C protect from these risks.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, hôpital Jean-Verdier, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, université de Paris XIII, 93143 Bondy Cedex, France. olivier.fain@jvr.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fain
mesh_terms: D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000502:physiology*; D001206:Ascorbic Acid Deficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012614:Scurvy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D001205:Ascorbic Acid