Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency Home
Vitamin B12 is also called
cobalamin, Vitamin B12 is important for the way the body works, and people who
don't have enough of it may feel tired or have a lack of energy.
Once diagnosed, vitamin B12
deficiency can usually be treated successfully with B12 injections and
sometimes with B12 tablets.
Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency:
- - Depression or mood impairment
- - Irritability
- - Pale skin
- - Numbness or tingling
- - Constipation, diarrhea, loss of appetite, or gas
- - Heart palpitations
- - Disturbed vision
- - Dementia
- - Sore, red tongue
- - Problems walking
- - A lack of energy or lethargy
- - Extrapyramidal signs (eg, dystonia, dysarthria, rigidity
