@pegobry Back in 2010 while awaiting the birth of my son, a friend warned me about my wife taking Vitamin C because it might trigger scurvy in the baby. She said her Doctor warned her about this when she was pregnant.
This made zero sense to me, so I started to dig in to it.
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This made zero sense to me, so I started to dig in to it.
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@pegobry I actually found she was kind of right! ie That probably *is* what her Doctor told her, because I found it in some online medical textbooks! (Can't find it now)
I eventually tracked it down to a letter in a medical journal from a single doctor hypothesising it.
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I eventually tracked it down to a letter in a medical journal from a single doctor hypothesising it.
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@pegobry Digging again now I did find this reference to it. Just bizarre that Doctors even in 21st century textbooks were getting taught such obviously implausible rubbish.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@pegobry (minor edit: Just realised it was the first son! So timeframe of my digging was 2005/2006 not 2010) 😬
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