Vomiting as a Presenting Symptom of Infantile Vitamin B12 Deficiency

An 8-month-old, exclusively breastfed girl presented with a five-month history of vomiting with subsequent failure to thrive and lethargy. Family history was notable for the maternal history of gastroschisis. Mother had no dietary restrictions and had successfully breastfed multiple children for >...

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Autores principales: Wong, Sienna, Ahmad, Nabeeha, Rossetti, Allison L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35733471
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25134
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description An 8-month-old, exclusively breastfed girl presented with a five-month history of vomiting with subsequent failure to thrive and lethargy. Family history was notable for the maternal history of gastroschisis. Mother had no dietary restrictions and had successfully breastfed multiple children for >12 months without issue. Initial evaluation was notable for macrocytic anemia. Subsequent serum B(12) levels were undetectable. Upon further questioning, the mother had significant bowel resection as an infant due to complications of gastroschisis. Maternal serum B(12 )levels were also undetectable. The infant’s symptoms resolved with supplementation.
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spelling pubmed-92053822022-06-21 Vomiting as a Presenting Symptom of Infantile Vitamin B12 Deficiency Wong, Sienna Ahmad, Nabeeha Rossetti, Allison L Cureus Internal Medicine An 8-month-old, exclusively breastfed girl presented with a five-month history of vomiting with subsequent failure to thrive and lethargy. Family history was notable for the maternal history of gastroschisis. Mother had no dietary restrictions and had successfully breastfed multiple children for >12 months without issue. Initial evaluation was notable for macrocytic anemia. Subsequent serum B(12) levels were undetectable. Upon further questioning, the mother had significant bowel resection as an infant due to complications of gastroschisis. Maternal serum B(12 )levels were also undetectable. The infant’s symptoms resolved with supplementation. Cureus 2022-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9205382/ /pubmed/35733471 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25134 Text en Copyright © 2022, Wong et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Vomiting as a Presenting Symptom of Infantile Vitamin B12 Deficiency
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title_short Vomiting as a Presenting Symptom of Infantile Vitamin B12 Deficiency
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205382/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25134
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