Dear Eric: My 80-year-old sister (I’ll call her Jane) doesn’t have much faith in doctors but is free with her own remedies for everyone else’s ailments (mostly vitamins, herbs and supplements). We used to refer to her as Dr. Jane behind her back because she had a vitamin for every health problem.

Jane developed problems walking and is now in a nursing home. It turns out Jane has been taking eight B-100 vitamin supplements a day for years. The percentage daily value of vitamin B-6 in one pill is 5882 percent. She has no feeling in her lower extremities whatsoever and we doubt she will ever walk again.

My brother tried to suggest to Jane that the vitamins were the likely cause of her problem, but Jane is adamant vitamins can’t harm you. She is running out of money for the nursing home bill

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