Sentences with phrase «pernicious anaemia»
Pernicious anaemia is a medical condition where your body cannot absorb enough vitamin B12, which is important for making red blood cells. This can lead to a decrease in the number of healthy red blood cells, causing symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, and shortness of breath. Full definition
He then suggested, and tested, that a liver - rich diet could be used to treat pernicious anaemia in humans.
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«In the 1960s, Swedish investigators treated 64 patients with pernicious anaemia with 1000 µg of oral cyanocobalamin, and all showed clinical and haematological remission.
Demiroglu H, Dundar S. Pernicious anaemia patients should be screened for iron deficiency during follow up.
Treated for pernicious anaemia, it seemed that this young priest lacked the physical stamina for parish work.
In the 1940s, vitamin B12 was identified as the substance in liver that acts against pernicious anaemia, and it was isolated in crystalline form.
Since 1926, it has been known that large quantities of partially cooked liver can cure pernicious anaemia, a disease which seems to be unique to humans and is often fatal.
Here is a list of the most common autoimmune conditions that patients with Pernicious Anaemia will also have:
In the case of Pernicious Anaemia, the body produces an antibody that attacks the protein responsible for extracting vitamin B12 from food (any animal product).
His success in treating pernicious anaemia was recognised by a Nobel Prize in 1934, although we now know that the anaemia in the dogs was treated by the iron in the liver, while the pernicious anaemia in humans was responding to the extra vitamin B12.
There are several other autoimmune diseases that have been associated with hashimoto thyroiditis such as addison's disease, diabetes mellitus, hyogonadism, pernicious anaemia, alopecia areata, chronic active hepatitis, giant cell arteritis, primary billary cirrhosis, rheumatoid arthritis, vitiligo and others.
Pernicious Anaemia is an Autoimmune Disease.