1. Skin performance:
Patients with vitamin B12 deficiency will have symmetrical skin pigmentation, and these pigmentation will appear widely in the whole body, especially in curved parts of the body, such as palms, soles, nails, mouth, hair color will be gray, and nails will appear pigmentation.
If it is vitamin B12 deficiency caused by pernicious anemia, patients will have symptoms of alopecia areata or white spots.
2. Other system performance:
(1) Blood system: Patients with vitamin B12 deficiency are often accompanied by symptoms of anemia, such as weakness, pale complexion, severe hepatosplenomegaly, and skin ecchymosis.
(2) Nervous system: Symptoms of the nervous system appear later than skin symptoms. Possible symptoms include neurological diseases, spinal cord degeneration and demyelination, and severe neurological symptoms. In severe cases, coma, dementia, or even die.
Children who are deficient in vitamin B12 will experience subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, peripheral nerve degeneration, and a series of atypical neurological symptoms, such as decreased muscle tone, blunted expression, mental degeneration and paralysis, and reduced sensitivity to the environment.
(3) Digestive system: Patients lacking vitamin B12 will experience diarrhea or vomiting symptoms, and in severe cases, they will have slight yellow staining of the sclera and fever.
(4) Cardiovascular system: Some critically ill patients may develop complications such as anemia, heart disease, and heart failure.
Eating animal foods can quickly supplement vitamin B12 for the body. Vitamin B12 is widely found in animal foods. Plant foods do not contain vitamin B12. Beef, pork, mutton, beef, chicken, duck, and fish are rich in vitamin B12. of vitamin B12.
Various dairy products, goat’s milk, cow’s milk, and horse’s milk are very rich in vitamin B12, and various eggs such as eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, and quail eggs are also good ingredients for vitamin B12 supplementation.
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is the only vitamin that contains metal elements. Vitamin B12 affects the metabolism of a carbon unit in the body and the synthesis of fatty acids. Usually, it is difficult for normal dieters to have deficiencies, and occasionally it will appear in severe malabsorption patients and long-term vegetarians.
