Life-threatening Manifestations of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Infants on a Vegan Diet
Result description
This article may help to increase awareness of this rare but potentially life-threatening complication of nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency among health professionals in pediatric care and may have some practical consequences. Firstly, a history of a vegan diet could be an important clue in the differential diagnosis in an infant with sudden symptomatology (e. g. unconsciousness, seizures or metabolic impairment). Secondly, all presented patients did not adequately supplement vitamin B12. This emphasizes the role of appropriate and regular medical supervision in infants on a vegan diet. Vitamin B12 supplementation is always necessary, while iron, calcium, omega 3 fatty acids, selen and zinc substitution is recommended only in individual cases.
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The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11130/21:10430727
Result on the web
https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WGV_A2tViw
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Life-threatening Manifestations of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Infants on a Vegan Diet
Original language description
This article may help to increase awareness of this rare but potentially life-threatening complication of nutritional vitamin B12 deficiency among health professionals in pediatric care and may have some practical consequences. Firstly, a history of a vegan diet could be an important clue in the differential diagnosis in an infant with sudden symptomatology (e. g. unconsciousness, seizures or metabolic impairment). Secondly, all presented patients did not adequately supplement vitamin B12. This emphasizes the role of appropriate and regular medical supervision in infants on a vegan diet. Vitamin B12 supplementation is always necessary, while iron, calcium, omega 3 fatty acids, selen and zinc substitution is recommended only in individual cases.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
JSC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30209 - Paediatrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Klinische Pädiatrie
ISSN
0300-8630
e-ISSN
1439-3824
Volume of the periodical
233
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
306-307
UT code for WoS article
000691725200004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85114604290
Basic information
Result type
JSC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
OECD FORD
Paediatrics
Year of implementation
2021