What Is Anemia?
2. Pernicious Anemia
While we need iron in our diets, we also need vitamin B-12 and folate in order to make enough red blood cells. This is not usually a problem because, for most people, these vitamins are plentiful in our diet. Pernicious anemia is a condition where the patient is unable to absorb vitamin B-12, thus resulting in a lack of red blood cells.
Pernicious anemia is so called because it used to be deadly. It is now easy to treat, however, with supplements. A similar condition is vitamin deficiency anemia which means the patient does not have enough Vitamin B-12 and folate because there are not enough of the vitamins in their diet.
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