Vitamin Injections

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B12 Vitamin

Who needs vitamin B12 shots?

Anyone who has signs and symptoms of a vitamin B12 deficiency or pernicious anemia should consult a doctor.

Signs and symptoms include:

• difficulty thinking and remembering

• fatigue

• heart palpitations

• pale skin

• weight loss

• infertility

• numbness and tingling in the hands and feet

• dementia

• mood changes

• a sore tongue

• low appetite

• constipation

Vitamin B12 deficiency risk factors

The following risk factors can increase the chance of developing vitamin B12 deficiency:

• high alcohol consumption

• older age

• pernicious anemia

• atrophic gastritis, which refers to inflammation in the stomach

• Helicobacter pylori infection

• celiac disease

• Crohn’s disease

• a history of gastrointestinal surgery

• following a plant-based diet

• pancreatic insufficiency

• AIDS

• some hereditary conditions that affect vitamin B12 absorption

Vitamin B12 shots may help reduce the risk of the following conditions:

• heart disease

• stroke

• neurological disorders

• problems with thinking and memory

• vision loss

• infertility

• neural tube defects in children born to those with a vitamin B12 deficiency

The following risk factors can increase the chance of developing vitamin B12 deficiency:

• high alcohol consumption

• older age

• pernicious anemia

• atrophic gastritis, which refers to inflammation in the stomach

• Helicobacter pylori infection

• celiac disease

• Crohn’s disease

• a history of gastrointestinal surgery

• following a plant-based diet

• pancreatic insufficiency

• AIDS

• some hereditary conditions that affect vitamin B12 absorption

People with gastrointestinal issues

Vitamin D
Functions:

- Boosts immune system

- Needed for bone growth and bone remodelling by osteoblasts and osteoclasts

- Together with calcium, vitamin D also helps protect older adults from osteoporosis.

-Cell growth modulation, neuromusucular and immune function and reduction in inflammation

Deficiency:

- More prevalent in dark skinned people - less UV activation of Vitamin D in the skin but people of African American ancestry, for example have reduced rates of fracture and osteoporosis compared to Caucasians

- Also prevalent in Caucasians

- Is associated with an estimated 29% of cancer mortality in males

- Strong evidence that vitamin D has protective effect against colon and Brest cancer

- In smokers risk of pancreatic cancer may be threefold higher in patients with high Vitamin D levels

- Cognitive dysfunction

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Vitamin B5

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Functions:

- Vitamin B5 plays a role in breakdown of fats and carbohydrates for energy as a component of coenzyme A.

- Critical to the manufacture of hemoglobin in red blood cells

- Plays a role in sex and stress-related hormones produced by the adrenal glands

- Maintains healthy GI tract

- Assists in the usage of other vitamins, especially riboflavin (Vitamin B2)

- Is sometimes called the "anti-stress" vitamin, but no concrete evidence exists.

- Vitamin B5 is needed to synthesise cholesterol required for steroid hormones.

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Vitamin B5 deficiency

- Very rare may include symptoms of fatigue, insomnia, depression, irritability, vomiting, abdominal pain, burning feet and upper respiratory infections, muscle cramps and dizzy spells.

- May develop hypoglycaemia or increased insulin sensitivity and very rarely adrenal insufficiency and hepatic encephalopathy

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Vitamin B6

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A cofactor in all of the enzymes that carry out transamination reactions required for the synthesis and breakdown of amino acids, carbohydrates and lipids

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Effects of vitamin B6 deficiency

- Due to its role in heme synthesis, Vitamin B6 deficiency can result in microcytic anaemia (similar to iron deficiency and lead poisoning)

- lead to homocysteinaemia/uria, a risk factor in coronary artery disease.

- Other symptoms include nervousness, insomnia, skin eruptions, loss of muscular control, muscular weakness, anaemia, dermatitis, arm and leg cramps, hair loss, slow learning and water retention.

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Biotin - Vitamin B7

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- Cofactor in metabolism of fatty and amino acids (leucine)

- Also plays a role one the citric acid cycle and gluconeogenesis

- May improve blood sugar control in combination with chromium

- May help to restore taste among people that have lost their sense of taste

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Biotin deficiency

- Very rare symptoms include hair pigment loss, dry scaly skin, chelititis, glossitis, dry eyes, loss of appetite, fatigue, insomnia and depresion

- pregnant women

- long term TPN

- MS

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Vitamin C

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Vitamin C is required for biosynthesis of collagen, 

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