Important Notice to Health Care Workers Using the Protocol for High-Dose Intravenous Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) for the Treatment of Cancer in Patients Who Are also Diabetic
It has been discovered that high-dose intravenous vitamin C (15 grams and higher) will cause a "False Positive" on finger stick blood glucose strips read on a "glucometer" within four hours after receiving the vitamin C infusion. If blood is taken from a vein and run on serum in a laboratory, there is no interference. For some reason, the strips are reading high levels of ascorbate as glucose. Please alert any diabetic patients of this potential complication. Again, it is a "False Positive" on the strips – the blood glucose does NOT change.