Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Medicine
Symptoms:
- Pallor
- Malaise
- Lightheadedness
- Fatigue
- Bleeding gums
- Dementia
- Strawberry tongue
- Weight loss
- Balance disorder
Treatments:
Causes:
- Pernicious anemia
- Malnutrition
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Intestinal parasite
- Gastrectomy
- Crohn's disease
- Coeliac disease
- Atrophic gastritis
- Antacid
Parent Disease:
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Diseases or conditions caused:
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