Vitamin B12 Healing Properties, Deficiency Symptoms

Vitamin B12 or Cyanocobalamin Deficiency symptoms

A deficiency of vitamin B12 may cause pernicious (destructive) anaemia. It may lead to a poor appetite and retardation of growth in children, chronic fatigue, a sore mouth, a feeling of numbness or stiffness, loss of mental energy, and difficulty in concentration.

Deficiency of vitamin Bl2 affects every cell in the body, but is most severely felt in the tissues where the ells normally divide rapidly, as in the blood-forming -tissues of the bone marrow and in the gastro-intestinal tract. The nervous system is also affected and this may lead to degeneration of nerve fibres in the spinal cord and peripheral nerves.

Smoking brings down the levels of vitamin B12 in our body.

Vitamin B12 healing properties

Vitamin Bl2 is administered orally in doses from 6 to 150 mcg. Taken in these doses, it helps in the treatment of lack of concentration, fatigue, depression, insomnia, anorexia, loss of weight due to deficiency of this vitamin, and poor memory. As this vitamin is difficult to assimilate when taken orally, most doctors administer it in the form of injections ranging from 100-1,000 mcg if used for therapeutic purposes.

Precautions

There are no known toxic effects of vitamin B12 even when it is taken in mega doses.

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