Do you from time to time feel constant fatigue, deterioration in general health and strange pain in your arms or legs?
Is it true that you need several cups of coffee a day?
It is possible that you are deficient in vitamin B12, which is very important for the body.
Lack of vitamin B12
can be very dangerous to health and lead to impaired thought processes or even death.
Since the early manifestations of vitamin B12 deficiency creep up gradually (unmotivated fatigue, weakness, decreased performance), we can refer to the fact that the years take their toll and think that such a condition is the norm.
Vitamin B12 deficiency becomes more common as we age because the body’s ability to absorb vitamin B12 decreases with age.
Along with age-related changes, uncontrolled use of some widely advertised medications (for example, against heartburn), as well as a passion for diets and vegetarianism, naturally leads to a significant deficiency of vitamin B12.
How to recognize your vitamin B12 deficiency?
The following symptoms are a signal to pay attention to your health…
- Dizziness.Frequent dizziness may be a sign of low vitamin B12 reserves in the body. For example, you may feel dizzy when changing your body position in space too quickly. Dizziness may also accompany you when going up or down stairs.
- Forgetfulness. Naturally, we all get forgetful sometimes, this is normal from time to time. However, chronic forgetfulness can hide a serious illness. Doctors are seeing a consistent tendency for people who are deficient in vitamin B12 to have an increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
- Unreasonable fatigue. After a good night’s sleep, do you yawn all day and find it difficult to force yourself to do anything due to strange fatigue? If constant fatigue accompanies you for several days or even weeks, the cause may be a lack of vitamin B12. The fact is that the lack of this vital element leads to disruption of the production of red blood cells, consequently, insufficient oxygen supply to the organs, the development of hypoxia, which is the cause of a constant feeling of fatigue.
- Vision problems. A lack of vitamin B12 can lead to changes in the quality of your vision: you may experience eye sensitivity, blurred vision, double vision, and shadows in your eyes, all as a result of damage to the optic nerve. Fortunately, adequate intake of vitamin B12 reverses these symptoms and helps improve vision.
- Feeling numb.It is normal to experience a feeling of numbness when you sit cross-legged for long periods of time. However, the same feeling that occurs despite not squeezing your body parts may indicate a lack of vitamin B12. Numbness or an electrical sensation may result from nerve damage in those suffering from vitamin B12 deficiency. And the reason here is again insufficient production of red blood cells and impaired synthesis of nerve sheaths, which occurs with a lack of vitamin B12.
Above we talked about the early symptoms of cobalamin deficiency – vitamin B 12. If you do not pay attention to such manifestations and do not correct the lack of this vital substance, then the symptoms will increase: icteric pallor of the skin will appear, disturbances in taste, swallowing, loss of skin sensitivity, which can end with unsteadiness of gait. Another extremely unpleasant sign will be a decrease in memory and thought processes, up to dementia in severe advanced cases.
Please never ignore your health problems. Early forms of almost any disease can be corrected. Remember this.
Treatment of disorders of vitamin B12 metabolism is carried out by a hematologist, since the most obvious sign of this disease is a violation of the production of red blood cells – erythrocytes, and the development of anemia. In order to suspect this diagnosis, it is enough to take a general blood test.