Can Intravenous Vitamin C Help Cure Sepsis?
1 Answer
Yes, a recent vitamin C protocol has been clinically proven to cure almost 100% of patients with sepsis. The older, mostly antibiotic treatments used in hospitals have only a modest percent of success.
Explanation:
Dr. Paul Marik, MD, Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, has developed a potential cure for sepsis and perhaps for other life-threatening infections, based on intravenous vitamin C.
Sepsis is often a fatal infection. Each year, up to 300,000 patients die in the U.S. due to this condition. Until now, the rate of treatment success was modest.
Dr. Marik conducted separate tests in a lab setting and proved that a combination of Vitamin C, the steroid Hydrocortisone and Thiamine -- when used intravenously -- was very effective.
His treatment on human patients achieved a remarkable, close to 100% cure rate, with some patients leaving the hospital in good condition after only a few days.
But is the vitamin C in high I.V. amount safe?
Dr. Marik's clinical practice and also recent studies (see below) have shown that vitamin C is safe in humans, when some simple preliminary conditions are met (iron tests, etc).
[Cell Press. "High doses of vitamin C to improve cancer treatment passes human safety trial." Science Daily, 30 March 2017.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170330142341.htm ].
“Dr. Marik has developed a brilliant and elegantly simple hypothesis in the treatment of sepsis,” said Richard Homan, MD, President and Provost of EVMS and Dean of the School of Medicine.
“The implications of the findings are profound and, if replicated, may transform the treatment of sepsis worldwide.”
[http://www.evms.edu/about_evms/administrative_offices/marketing_communications/publications/issue_9_4/has-sepsis-met-its-match.php ]
Media Sources in the US:
Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, March 2017: http://www.evms.edu/about_evms/administrative_offices/marketing_communications/publications/issue_9_4/has-sepsis-met-its-match.php
NPR (National Public Radio): "Doctor Turns Up Possible Treatment For Deadly Sepsis". https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/521096488/doctor-turns-up-possible-treatment-for-deadly-sepsis
For Medical Professionals:
Journal Reference:
CHEST, Volume 151, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 1229-1238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2016.11.036
