0
Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia is another type of megaloblastic anemia that develops when the body doesn't absorb enough of this nutrient.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Explain the relation between vitamin b12 and pernicious anemia?
first of all its called vitamin b12 deficiency anemia. Pernicious anemia and vitamin B12 deficiency anemia are the same thing. Pernicious anemia is caused by a lack of vitamin B12. You're not able to absorb the vitamin B12 due to the absence of intrinsinc factor.
Can you have both iron-deficiency anemia and vitamin B12 anemia?
i guess so but then it would be called deficiency anemia because you are lacking nutrition
Pernicious anemia is due to lack of what vitamin?
Perncious anemia is caused by the body's inability to absorb the vitamin B12 from the gastrointestinal tract, due to a loss of gastric parietal cells. Regular B12 supplementation can keep pernicious anemia at bay, though it is not a complete cure. B12 is a vitamin obtained from meat and dairy products.
Is an aplastic anemia caused by a deficiency in vitamin B12?
No; aplastic anemia is caused by a defective function or disease of bone marrow.Pernicious anemia is caused by vitamin B12 deficiency.
Why oral administration of vitamin B12 not effective as a treatment of pernicious anemia?
Pernicious anemia is due to a deficiency of a vitamin called intrinsic factor, which is normally produced by cells of the stomach. Intrinsic factor is required for the absorption of vitamin B12, so if intrinsic factor levels are insufficient, vitamin B12 will not be absorbed well. So administration of vitamin B12 will only help treat vitamin B12-deficiency anemia if vitamin B12 can be absorbed, and this can only happen if there are adequate levels of intrinsic factor to begin with. Patients with pernicious anemia do not have adequate intrinsic factor levels, so they will not be helped by vitamin B12 treatment since they can't absorb it well enough.
A deficiency of vitamin b12 leads to which type of anemia?
Megaloblastic (Macrocytic) Anemia. Basically the Red Blood Cells have a larger volume (MCV).
What are the contraindications of blood transfusion?
* Megaloblastik anemia (deficit of vitamin B12 and folio) * Anemia iron deficit
What is it called when you lack iron?
An anemia caused by vitamin B12 is pernicious anemia while deficient in iron is iron defeciency anemia.
Why is vitamin B12 anemia called megoblastic anemia?
megablastic means enlarged immature white blood cells.
What is associated with decreased hematopoiesis?
vitamin b12 deficiency and iron deficiency anemia
What is the recommended treatment for pernicious anemia?
Pernicious anemia can be treated with injections of vitamin B12, and possibly with B12 vitamin pills. Pernicious anemia is a vitamin B12 deficiency disease, B12 is required to make healthy red blood cells and can normally be obtained from animal based foods, including, meats, fish, dairy products and eggs (but not plant foods), however, when people choose not to eat animal products, vegans for instance, they may suffer a B12 deficiency. Also, inadequate absorption can occur when there is an insufficient amount of a specific protein referred to as "intrinsic factor" in the body that is normally released by stomach cells.
What is nutritional anemia?
A lower blood count due to a bad diet. There are certain nutritional deficiencies which account for anemia. Vitamin B12 in particular.
