# Any harm by giving a scurvy patient one huge blast of Vitamin C?

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**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-harm-by-giving-a-scurvy-patient-one-huge-blast-of-vitamin-c/917470 "2020-08-07T04:20:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-harm-by-giving-a-scurvy-patient-one-huge-blast-of-vitamin-c/917470/14 "2020-08-07T18:17:47Z")

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Some degree of shock.

> [@Feeding starvation victims](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeding-starvation-victims/485789):
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> We’ve all heard of Concentration Camp victims who died when well-meaning liberators fed them food or candy bars. The supposed reason was that their digestive systems were no longer used to digesting food (or especially sugar?) and went into shock. Physiologically, what effects did the food have, and what exactly caused the victims’ deaths?

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