When my sons wisdom teeth started to come in , they became "impacted". I did a search and 99.9% of the sites or advice was that once the wisdom teeth become impacted (infection sets in) the only thing left you could do was to have them extracted! Unable to find any real protocal other then the standard treatment of extraction, I decide to try to spare him any more pain and see if we could deal with it ourself! Impacted wisdom teeth means there is an infection which inflames the gums and causes the severe pain! Well I figuered if I could relieve the infection it would relieve the pain and ultimately avoid surgery! I gave him 10 grams of vitamin c, tea with grapefruit seed extract and as far as my son is concern the most affective treatment, Sea Salt !
I could see the infection in his mouth and on the back of his throat,little white bumps where he said it hurt or annoyed him the most!
He told me he felt instance pain relief from the Sea Salt gargle I made for him!
With in the next couple of days he said the pain was totaly gone ,. I could see that the white puss filled bumps where all gone along with the red swelling. He told me that the only thing he could feel was a little pressure where his teeth where breaking through the skin ! With in days the infection had cleared up, so even if Vitamin C did cause a potassium deficiency , which I doubt, if you use Sea Salt to help rid the infection it would hardly be enough time to cause a deficiency of any kind!

In my research on Vitamin C, I have not come across anything that indicated that Vit C would lower your potassium levels. Go ahead and dose up! :)

Bambam

just out of curiosity, why are you concerned about VC affecting your potassium? Raising or lowering?
jce

If you use the only 100% pure ascorbate, hydrogen ascorbate, i.e. ascorbic acid, it will not affect your mineral levels one way or the other.

As "grist for your mill," I myself have taken a "bowel tolerance" dose (in HEALTH, not illness) - http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm of ascorbic acid every day since 1994, amounting to, on average, 30,000 to 60,000 milligrams (approximately 1 to 2 ounces) in 5 to 10 divided doses (and will continue to do so for the rest of my life). This is MY bowel tolerance dosage. Your bowel tolerance dosage may be more, or less, than mine, and will undoubtedly vary depending on your current overall health and diet. Each person must find their own bowel tolerance dose each day (although ingesting ANY ascorbate is MUCH better than none). Virtually any mammal you can name (standardized to 154 pounds/70 kilos) produces a minimum of from 2,000 to 13,000 milligrams of ascorbic acid EVERY day of its life, and under "stress" one was recorded to have produced 100,000 milligrams in 24 hours. Need we wonder why their health always seems to be so much better than ours?

Best wishes,

David