B12 deficiency treatment

Where can you get cobalamin/ Vitamin B12? so many people have asked us where to get vitamin b12 that the Patient Support Group thought we could say where our members have found some

GPs are now required to test for B12 status and know what the blood serum B12 status is in all patients with dementia.  The QOF framework highlights how important this is, and is almost certainly the first year in a process which will require GPs to supplement with vitamin B12 in the future.  This is an excellent results!

Many people wonder if B12 has any effect on cancer.  It seems obvious, since B12 is needed for the proper switching on and off of genes in the DNA and cancer is almost certainly caused when the genes don't switch off when they should.  But we hadn't found any direct evidence of this.

Well here it is.

How do you diagnose B12 deficiency?  Is it possible to have B12 deficiency if your blood serum B12 is within the reference range? If your doctor won't treat you, what can you do?

At last - we have prepared a short protocol for treatment of B12 deficiency.

This can be used by all clinicians (especially those in primary care) and will ensure people receive consistent DIAGNOSIS, and TREATMENT.

This protocol applies to patients of all ages.  

We get lots of letters requesting advice, and most of them are too personal to post; but I thought this was a particularly interesting one.

The patient was due to have her two-monthly injection of cyanocobalamin, however she's been told that cyanocobalamin is no longer available and she'll have to take hydroxocobalamin.  The last time she had hydroxocobalamin it caused a terrible itchy rash.

I'm delighted to let people know that we've now been able to upload both a Treatment Protocol, and a revised version of the Observational Analysis.

Links to each of these can be found on the Web Site.

We've completed an updated version of the observational analysis, which is now posted to the web site.  

This is really an accompaniment to the Treatment protocol (http://www.b12d.org/content/b12-deficiency-protocol-treatment), and explains some of the evidence behind the treatment protocol.

Body stores of B12 are estimated to be about 7 mg. It's always been assumed that humans need around 1.5 - 2.5 µg per day, on the basis that this is the NET difference between the amount used up and lost, and the amount recycled by the body and reused. So on this basis, 1.5-2.5 µg per day will take 7 – 15 years to use up the whole of the body stores.

  I get my Methycobalamin 100mg x 100 tablets from Big Vits at a price of £8.45