Vitamin C and Reduced Weight Gain

• Intravenous vitamin C in critically ill adult patients with burns: An integrative review.

  • 2025-06
  • Review
  • Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 134
  • • Juan Novoa
    • Gil Hardy
    • Ignacio Aramendi
    • William Manzanares

  • PubMed: 40081106
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2025.112728

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Weight Gain

  • Low evidence

  high-dose intravenous vitamin C may reduce fluid requirements, body weight gain, and wound edema, improving gas exchange and renal function in the acute phase after burn injury.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  high-dose intravenous vitamin C