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Does The Decrease In Alcohol Consumption Brings Down The MCV Level?
My MCV level was 106.3 recently, I know quite high. I had been drinkng 12-15 beers a day and 2-3 shots of whiskey. I'm trying to get way back, but seem to have stalled around 6 beers a day. Will this be enough to bring my MCV level to the 98 range?
Sat, 7 Jun 2014
If someone have suggested to go for MCV test, he/she might have told solution.MCV is mean corpuscular volume of red blood cell.If it is high , it suggest deficiency of Vit B12 or folic acid.And treatment is simple take injection and medicines for the same. Alcohol damages liver.Liver is the main site for these vitamins store.So alcohol can damage to stores of this vitamins and causes deficiency and MCV level high.
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