Can you really take too much Vitamin C? Yes, Vitamin C overdose is a real thing.
One reader asked:
I’ve heard of people overdosing on Vitamin C, yet I can eat a couple dozen Halls Vitamin C cough drops in one sitting without any ill effects. The package states that each cough drop has 100% of the daily recommended dose of Vitamin C. (Each drop has 60 mg of Vitamin C.)
My local pharmacist told me that 500 mg is the daily maximum dosage, but during times like allergy season doctors are more likely to increase that dose to 1000 mg per day.
So… how much is really too much? There are so many conflicting stories out there.
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