Vitamin C Fails Again As Treatment For Sepsis
Sepsis is one of the most common causes of death for hospitalized patients. The search for an effective treatment has been frustrating.
Though attention has understandably been on COVID-19 over the last year, nearly as many people in the hospital have died with a different condition: sepsis. A study now casts doubt on a once-promising treatment for this disease.
In 2017, scientists thought they had found a remarkable advance. A researcher in Norfolk, Va., reported that a treatment involving intravenous vitamin C, thiamine, and steroids sharply reduced the risk of death in his sepsis patients.
Sepsis, which is sometimes called blood poisoning, is essentially the body's overreaction to an infection. COVID-19
