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What is Buffered Vitamin C?

Buffered vitamin C contains small amounts of calcium, magnesium and potassium to help with digestion and provide the "buffering" effect. Available as capsules or powder.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 1 0
Balance problems 1 0

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Dosages

  1 tps. daily 8000 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
0 0%

Report created on November 23, 2009.