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Many people eat vegetarian and vegetarian diets because of health or various factors, and big coffee artists in the entertainment industry such as Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau are also long-term vegetarians. However, doctors remind that long-term vegetarianism is easy to cause vitamin B12 deficiency, you may not expect that this vitamin deficiency may make you suffer from dementia!
There are many causative factors of dementia, and some doctors have shared that neurology clinics often see a kind of patients with memory loss and early dementia symptoms due to lack of vitamin B12. Most of the dementia-type conditions are becoming more and more obvious and irreversible; Fortunately, the dementia caused by this eating disorder can be improved and reversed by diet and B12 supplementation.
Reversible dementia 7 causative factors
(1) Brain trauma: such as normobaric hydroencephalopathy, concussion caused by trauma, brain contusion, intracranial hematoma or dura mater, and brain tumors.
(2) Central nervous system infection: such as HIV, treponema pallidum, etc., may invade the central nervous system of the brain, causing brain function damage and dementia.
(3) Autoimmune diseases: such as lupus erythematosus combined with encephalitis.
(4) Uneven nutrition: lack of folic acid, vitamin B1, B2, B6, B12 and other nutrients.
(5) Metabolic disorders: related to hypothyroidism, diabetes, liver function, kidney dysfunction, or electrolyte imbalance in the body.
(6) Damage to toxic substances: drug poisoning, alcoholism, heavy metal pollution such as the use of aluminum food utensils, etc.
(7) Pseudo-dementia caused by depression and long-term stress.
Who is susceptible to vitamin B12 deficiency?
1, vegetarians: B12 is rich in animal protein, such as fish, eggs and dairy products, B12 deficiency is common in vegetarians, long-term vegetarianism is easier to cause vitamin B12 deficiency, resulting in anemia, numbness of hands and feet, memory loss, dementia.
2. Those who eat too light diet and hardly eat red meat: Some people may be old because of bad teeth and poor appetite, and they also feel that they should be "healthy", and their diet becomes particularly light and do not eat meat, which is also prone to lack of vitamin B12.
3. Long-term medication: patients who use gastric drugs, biguanide diabetes drugs or multiple drugs will also be deficient due to the drug affecting vitamin B12 absorption.
What are the symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency?
Early symptoms are not obvious and usually only burnout. If vitamin B12 deficiency is chronically deficient and not supplemented or treated with medication, it may lead to permanent neuropathy, such as dementia.
●Mild symptoms: fatigue and weakness, anemia, tongue inflammation, gastritis, memory loss
●Severe symptoms: neuropathy, foot numbness, weakness and pain, and some patients will have gait instability such as cerebellar lesions like penguins. Others can even cause irreversible nerve damage, leading to dementia, anxiety, mental confusion, etc.