what side effects occur on to a child if he is overdosed with Ascorbic Acid during childhood?

Question

Many journals say that artificial foods should be promoted to children in infancy but many artificial foods contain ascorbic acids and overdosing the child in infancy with Ascorbic acid can harm him .What are the symptoms?

Answer 1

Ascorbic acid is just the chemical name for Vitamin C.
Vitamin C can't hurt a child. If he takes to much, he'll just excrete it out.

Answer 2

Side-effects

* Vitamin C causes diarrhea in everyone if taken in quantities beyond a certain limit, which is variable to the individual. Cathcart[4] has called this limit the Bowel Tolerance Limit and observed that it is higher in people with serious illness than those in good health. It ranges from 5 to 25 grams per day in healthy individuals to 300 grams per day in the seriously ill persons, such as those with AIDS and cancer. The diarrhea side-effect is harmless, though it can be inconvenient. The diarrhea will cease as soon as the dose is reduced.

* Large doses of vitamin C may cause acid indigestion (stomach upset), particularly when taken on an empty stomach. This unpleasant but harmless side-effect can be avoided by taking the vitamin along with meals, or by offsetting its acidity by taking an antacid such as baking soda or calcium carbonate (Tums)

Answer 3

Never heard of pushing artificial/processed foods on a baby. NEVER. I think you must have misread/misunderstood that.

Ascorbic acid is Vitamin C. They get plenty either from formula or from the mother (if her diet is the way it should be). When they graduate to baby food, it contains all the Vitamin C the baby needs. The only way a baby could have too much Vitamin C is if you purposely gave it Vitamin C tablets. And THAT would be abusive.

Answer 4

ascorbic acid is vitamin c which is next to impossible to overdose on, once your body has had all it needs, you pee off the rest