Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, aids your body's metabolism of protein, fats, and carbohydrates. It also helps convert amino acids and form new red blood cells, antibodies, and neurotransmitters, and is vital to your fetus's developing brain and nervous system. Research shows that the vitamin may relieve nausea or vomiting for some women during pregnancy, though no one knows for sure why it works.
While you're pregnant, you'll need about 1.9 mg a day --- about what you'd expect to get from eating a bowl of vitamin-fortified cereal. While nursing, your needs increase slightly to 2.0 mg.
You can get all you need from a varied diet. Most prenatal vitamins also contain at least 100 percent of the recommended amount. However, you can ask your practitioner about taking more if you're suffering from morning sickness.
Signs of a deficiency of vitamin B6 are inflammation of the tongue, sores or mouth ulcers, depression, and anemia. The best food sources which are high in vitamin B6 are brown rice, lean meats, poultry, fish, avocados, whole grains, beans, corn, and nuts.
Here are the amounts in some common foods:
• 1 medium banana: 0.7 mg
• 1 medium baked potato: 0.7 mg
• 1 slice watermelon: 0.7 mg
• 1 cup canned chickpeas: 0.6 mg
• 8 oz. Prune Juice: 0.6 mg
• 3 oz. chicken breast: 0.5 mg
Vitamin B6
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Vitamin B6 deficiency can be prevented or treated with consumption of the recommended dietary allowance, as supplied by food or by vitamin supplements.
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Vitamin B6 is a vitamin that occurs naturally in many foods. It is water soluble and treats and prevents multiple conditions.