Vitamin C Balance in Patients with Acute Pneumonia during Antibioticotherapy
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Two groups (seventy each) of patients with acute pneumonia treated in a hospital are analysed. The first received course treament with penicillin, streptomycin, oxytetracyclin. The second received the same antibiotics in association with ascorbic acid (AA). It was found that patients of the first groups showed a rapidly advancing reduction of the AA content in the blood plasma and a reduced urinary excretion of AA. The AA deficit was especially pronounced in the tetracyclin treated patients; in the streptomycin treated patients this deficit was smaller and in the penicillin treated patients still smaller. Results indicate that antibioticotherapy in combination with ascorbic acid enhanced the recovery of patients with acute pneumonia.
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