CERN-C

What CERN-C (Ascorbic acid (vitamin C)) is used for

Ascorbic acid is vitamin C, a vitamin the body needs every day from food because it cannot store it. It helps keep cells healthy, helps the body make collagen for skin, blood vessels, bones and cartilage, helps wounds heal and helps the body take up iron from plant foods. As a medicine it comes as tablets that are used to treat or prevent a lack of vitamin C.

• Treating and preventing vitamin C deficiency (lack of vitamin C)
• Treating and preventing scurvy, an illness caused by a severe lack of vitamin C
• Adding vitamin C when the diet does not give enough
• People more likely to run short include smokers (and people around smokers), people who eat a very limited range of foods, people with severe gut absorption problems, some people with cancer, and people on kidney dialysis

Side effects, warnings and interactions for Ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

Prepared from the sources listed by the MedInfoBase team. General information, not medical advice: it gives no doses. Your doctor or pharmacist decides the medicine and dose for you.