Vitamin C does not help reduce the chance of getting the flu

If you are a person who has a habit of taking vitamin C every day, it is because you "love" the taste of this vitamin, but it is not really able to reduce the risk of flu infection as you think. That is the result of a recent study by a group of Finnish researchers at the University of Helsinki.

Dr. Harri Hemla and colleagues conducted 30 studies on the relationship between regular use of vitamin C and flu, based on the analysis of 11,350 cases of an average of 200mg of vitamin C daily.

The results showed that vitamin C did not reduce the likelihood of getting the flu. Even if you have been infected with the flu, vitamin C does not make the disease lessen or shorten the duration of infection.

Scientists found that the use of vitamin C will work for people with high physical activity. Six experiments were performed on marathon, skiing or ice-cold athletes indicating that they could reduce their chances of getting the flu if they took more vitamin C.

According to Harri Hemla: ' Regular use of vitamin C 365 days a year is not effective in reducing the likelihood of catching the flu. The use of vitamin C only works if you exercise regularly or live in cold areas . "

Researchers will continue to perform experiments to find the effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing flu in children and pneumonia.

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