What Causes Low RBC, WBC And Platelet Counts While Treating Vitamin B12 Deficiency?

Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016

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Question : the platellet count, RBC and wbc are low. took 10 nos of b12 injections. yet b12 is also low

Answered by Dr. Shailja Puri (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Vitamin B 12 deficiency may be accompanied by deficiency of folic acid also

Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query on HealthcareMagic.
Vitamin B 12 deficiency is often accompanied by low RBC count, low platelet count and low WBC count.
Vitamin B 12 deficiency is corrected by either vitamin injection or oral supplementation.
Persistence of low vitamin B 12 despite 10 injections of vitamin B 12 indicates some other deficiency also in addition of vitamin B 12 deficiency.
I suggest you to get folic acid levels also.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is often accompanied by deficiency of folic acid.

Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja Puri

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Prasad