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PORPHYRIA FACTS: NUTRITION - VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID)
What is another name for Vitamin C?
Ascorbic acid is the scientific name for Vitamin C.
SOURCE:
Sheryl Wilson MNS RD
Porphyria Dietician Specialist
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Does vitamin - C therpy work in the treatment of CEP?
The use of oral alpha-tocopherol and ascorbic acid to quench reactive oxygen
radicals has been advocated to reduce porphyrin-sensitized photodamage to
skin elements and circulating erythrocytes.
SOURCE:
Erythropoietic Porphyria
Jeanette Hebel Matthews, MD,
Department of Dermatology,
The Skin Surgery Center
eMedicine Journal,
May 22 2002,
Volume 3, Number 5
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Should PCT patients ingest vitamin C?
Adequate vitamin C should be consumed.
SOURCE:
Porphyria Cutaneous Tarda
Maureen B Poh-Fitzpatrick, MD,
Professor Emerita and Special Lecturer,
Department of Dermatology,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Division of Dermatology,
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
eMedicine Journal
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Do PCT have deficient vitamin C levels?
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) levels are deficient in some patients with PCT.
SOURCE:
Variable abnormalities in the porphyrias.
Hindmarsh JT.
Clinical Chimica Acta 217:29,
1993.
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Do PCT patients have a vitamin C deficiency?
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) levels are deficient in some patients with PCT.
SOURCE:
Porphyria Cutaneous Tarda
Maureen B Poh-Fitzpatrick, MD,
Professor Emerita and Special Lecturer,
Department of Dermatology,
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Division of Dermatology,
University of Tennessee College of Medicine
eMedicine Journal
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Is the ingestion of Vitamin C beneficial in preventing PCT?
In research studies it has been found that ascorbic acid inhibits chemically
induced uroporphyria.
SOURCE:
Sinclair PR, Lambrecht RW. et. al.
Ascorbic acid inhibits chemically induced uroporphyria.
Heptology
1995 Aug;22(2):565-72.
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ascorbic acid deficiency
A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin c), characterised
by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles,
and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of haemorrhage. Ascorbic acid
is another name for Vitamin C. Such deficiency is often noted in PCT [porphyria
cutaneous tarda].
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