Pharma gyan Pandit

Vitamin B12 help to treat Pernicious anaemia

B12 deficiency can cause several forms of anaemia, most notably pernicious anaemia. The story behind the earlier treatments of pernicious anaemia is a rather fascinating one. Up until the late 1920’s pernicious anaemia was untreatable and fatal. Three American physiologists (William Murphy, George Minot and George Whipple) devised the concept that food could be used to treat pernicious anaemia. The diet they constructed containing liver “in such quantities [that] seemed very outrageous” had dramatic beneficial effects on the once untreatable pernicious anaemia. In 1934, the three colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.