New Delhi: Eating healthy food and staying healthy has become very challenging in today’s time. Because one by one dangerous diseases have taken birth in the world. People do not even know that they have come under the grip of any serious disease. Diseases occur in the body only when we are negligent towards our health in some way or the other.

Due to this, the amount of nutrients in the body is also much less than necessary. Healthy diet intake is required to overcome the deficiency of nutrients.

Essential vitamins and minerals work to provide strength to the body and keep it disease-free. Today we will talk about vitamin B12 deficiency in the body, what causes its deficiency and how the deficiency of this vitamin can be overcome.

Vitamin B12 is one of the most essential nutrients, which helps in DNA synthesis, energy production and functions of the central nervous system in the body. B12 is found in many foods. But despite this, many people are found to be deficient in this vitamin.

Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency

1. Fatigue

2. Difficulty breathing

3. Yellowing of the skin

4. Dizziness

5. Changes in the heartbeat

6. Weight loss

7. Numbness or tingling of hands and feet

8. Muscle weakness

9. The problem of forgetting

How to overcome vitamin B12 deficiency

1. Vitamin B12 is mostly found in meat or eggs and milk. If you want, you can make these foods a part of your diet. However, if you are a vegetarian, you can consume a diet containing grains and nutritious yeast for better health.

Vitamin B12 deficiency is usually treated with cyanocobalamin. Depending on the causes of vitamin deficiency, the patient needs treatment.

2. Many times its treatment can also go on for a long time if the deficiency is not removed. Treatments available for vitamin B12 include vitamin B12 oral medication, vitamin B12 intramuscular injection (a dose that goes into muscle), vitamin B12 nasal gel and vitamin B12 nasal spray.

3. To overcome vitamin B12 deficiency from the body, some eating habits need to be improved. Health experts recommend eating eggs, soybeans, milk, yogurt, cheese, oats, green vegetables, salmon fish and lobster fish, as they are rich in vitamin B12.

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