Has anyone experienced miscarriage from taking Vitamin C?
By Bethany1202
@Bethany1202 (3431)
United States
June 8, 2008 3:13pm CST
My friend was taking lots of vitamin c and her doctor told her to stop taking it when she became pregnant, so she did. However, she still had a miscarriage. This was her first pregnancy and she is very upset, but she has learned much from it. Has anyone else experienced this?
I have done a little research since then and found some herbs NOT to take during pregnancy include:
Angelica/Dong Quai,
Blue COhosh and Black Cohosh varieties,
Pennyroyal,
and many others.
I was actually amazed at how many herbs are contraindicated during pregnancy and thought I would share this knowledge just in case others didn't know. You can do a search to find out more about this. (I receommend using http://www.Goodsearch.com so you can donate to your favorite charity while searching!) Some technical terms are: emmenagogue and oxytocic herbs.
2 responses
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
8 Jun 08
I am sorry to hear about your friends miscarriage. I have never had a problem with Vitamin C during either of my pregnancies. I knew that there were some things to avoid while pregnant, but I never thought that Vitamin C would be one of them.
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