The Symptoms of Anemia due to Vitamin B12 Deficiency
What are the symptoms of anemia due to vitamin B12 deficiency?
Symptoms of this type of anemia can occur when it was well advanced, thanks to the body’s ability to go gently offset its effects over a period of time can be very lengthy.
- It is common to the pallor of a person with a great tendency to sleepiness, joining to it a continuous feeling of fatigue and decreased tolerance to physical exertion.
- If anemia worsens arise palpitations (unpleasant sensations of the heartbeat), dizziness, intermittent claudication (leg pain when walking due to insufficient blood supply), respiratory failure and even heart angina (pain suffering heart attack similar to the ).- Can also occur in this disease bruising or other acts of mucosal bleeding due to thrombocytopenia (insufficient supply of blood platelets).
- B12 deficiency also leads in the worst cases, the development of neurological disease on the spinal cord, which can lead to symptoms tingling sensation in hands and feet with a loss of vibratory sensation, difficulty in coordinating movement would be to generalized muscle weakness and gait.
If the disease is not diagnosed early can end up appearing more serious neurological problems, which in principle are shown as changes in the behavior of the individual and memory disorders, but later materialize as a full-blown dementia.
credit to: Dr. Alfonso José Santiago MarÃ, Dr. Flemming Andersen, Dr. Patrick Davey, Dra. Rachel Green