Anaemia

Prevalence Causes Clinical features Investigations Therapy Prognosis

Therapy Give hydroxycobalamin a 1mg im alternate days for 6 days. d Cobalamin can be given orally c but in very high doses and with variable success d   Why? Patients with pernicious anaemia or malabsorption can be successfully treated with very high dose oral cobalamin. c

Expiry date: September 2003
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Authors	R   Dinniwell , CM   Ball
Reviewer	D   Chitnavas
CAT Writers	R   Dinniwell , CM   Bal, C Wottonl