<p>Is it okay to take a multivitamin (like One-a-day) when sick?</p>
<p>I’m not feeling so well right now and have no appetite whatsoever. However, I know that my body needs nutrients.</p>
<p>If it has Bvitamins/iron in it, you should take it with a little food, in order to digest it better.Try having some broth or emergence-e</p>
<p>Well, I take a multivitamin every morning on the advice of friends and at least one doctor. And I have had few colds, stuffy noses or sore throats in recent years. But our CC friend ‘Son of Opie’ got me thinking when I read a commend of his several months ago. To paraphrase…“taking vitamins and supplements daily simply gives you very expensive urine.” Some studies seem to bear this out.</p>
<p>It’s OK to take it, but it’s not crucial. You can live without vitamins for a few days.</p>
<p>If you do take it, take it with food to avoid an upset stomach. Also, taking a multivitamin with food helps your body to absorb the fat-soluble nutrients in it, like vitamins D and E.</p>
<p>Not eating much for a few days won’t do you any significant harm, by the way, but remember that people usually get a lot of their total water intake from food. So even if you have no appetite, try to remember to drink an adequate amount. You’ll feel worse if you get dehydrated.</p>
<p>You’ll feel worse if you get dehydrated.
Good point. If you are dehydrated, you will feel sick even if you don’t have a cold.</p>
<p>I am not a believer in taking vitamins, although I am supposed to be taking Vit D/calcium, which I’m on and off about doing. Most of the recent studies show no real need for most people to take extra vitamins.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine wanting to take those horse pills (multi-vitamin) while sick!</p>
<p>If you eat a half-way decent diet, you shouldn’t need to take a lot in the way of vitamins. If you take something you should aim for something higher in quality than One-a-Day, though.</p>
<p>There are certain nutrients that are very difficult to get enough of from diet, that I think are worth supplementing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Magnesium</li>
<li>vitamin D3</li>
<li>vitamin K2</li>
</ul>
<p>I am a big believer in D3, since I started keeping my levels high enough I rarely get sick.</p>
<p>vitamin C is a biggy when sick, it helps.</p>
<p>I believe most studies show Vit C does not help shorten a cold/illness.</p>
<p>Yes, I rarely get sick now that my D3 levels are in the normal range - didn’t think of that as a possible relating factor.</p>
<p>Hasn’t there been a huge study out lately showing higher death rates for women who take multivitamins vs women who don’t?</p>
<p>^ Here’s one debunking of that study, there are others:</p>
<p>[Do</a> Vitamins Increase Mortality in Older Women? | Jennifer Landa MD - Author, “The Sex Drive Solution for Women” & Orlando Bioidentical Hormones](<a href=“http://www.drjenniferlanda.com/2011/10/11/vitamins-increase-mortality-older-women/]Do”>http://www.drjenniferlanda.com/2011/10/11/vitamins-increase-mortality-older-women/)</p>
<p>The media in general do an extremely poor job reporting on these studies, they are looking for headlines and often don’t have the time, desire, or analytic skills to dig into the study and see what it really says.</p>
<p>Sorry, can’t you find a source not selling something?</p>
<p>Dear bethievt,</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it also depend on the quality of the multivitamin?</p>
<p>Some multivitamins are better than others.</p>
<p>Consumer lab rates nutritional supplements.
[ConsumerLab.com</a> - independent tests and reviews of vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements](<a href=“http://www.consumerlab.com/]ConsumerLab.com”>http://www.consumerlab.com/)</p>
<p>[Figuring</a> Out Daily Values on Multivitamin Labels - WSJ.com](<a href=“Figuring Out Daily Values on Multivitamin Labels - WSJ”>Figuring Out Daily Values on Multivitamin Labels - WSJ)</p>
<p>A multivitamin when sick may or may not help, but I can’t think of any reason why it would hurt. Multivitamins usually contain only modest amounts of each vitamin. I say go ahead and continue taking them unless your Dr. advises otherwise.</p>
<p>If the vitamin has minerals in it, like iron…your stomach may get upset.</p>
<p>I take the gummy vitamins. I can’t take those regular adult vitamins without getting sick, unless I cut them in half and only take half.</p>