I work in healthcare and we’ll often get drug reps that bring in food to us. A couple weeks back a rep brought a bunch of fruit and snacks from erehwon. Among the stash were these vitamin c pops from a brand called yum earth. I’d grab some here and there, mainly to wake myself up during my shifts as I deal with chronic fatigue. No biggie.
Two days ago I was shopping at my local TJ Maxx and in the checkout aisle I found these pops again. I really enjoyed them the first time so I figured I’d try them again. Now’s a good time to mention I have memory issues and will sometimes eat an entire bag of snacks without realizing… I completely forgot the “vitamin c” written in bold just beneath the brand logo.
This morning I woke up about 20 minutes before my alarm, which is already annoying as is. Pair that with some horrific symptoms of vitamin c toxicity and you’ve got me pissed off beyond belief. I thought this was food poisoning or something, but my family doesn’t keep a lot of food in the house- so it definitely wasn’t that, then I remembered that I ate a shit ton of those vitamin c pops. I’m an EMT and they never taught me this in my school but vitamin C can give you the runs real bad.
Looking at the package just now, one pop has about 125 mg of vitamin c- that’s 140% of the daily amount needed. Not paying attention to my portions, I ended up taking 30 of these bad boys over the past two days. Quick multiplication and that’s almost 4,000 mg, which is 50 times the daily recommended dose.
Thankfully it’s water soluble so I’ll be chugging as much as I can to get it out of my system.
TL;DR : be careful with your portion sizes or you’ll end up stuck to the toilet
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I’ve done that before with vitamin c “cough drops” that I didn’t realize were just vitamin c drops instead of cough drops. Anyway, I had some regrets and now I’m very careful about vitamin c drops and sugar free cough drops.
I learned as a kid not to eat too many oranges at once due to this 🙁 they were such tasty oranges!
In general, lack of awareness is something I look out for in my medical professionals.
Whoopsies kill, and ive learned to read labels even after recommendations.
An EMT memory issues is kind of terrifying.
I’m concerned that you have memory issues but are an EMT