what does b12 injections do for your body Vitamin B/D/B12 Near Ne | Wilmington Urgent Care Clinic Vitamin B12 Supplements and Injections

Vitamin B complex is included in these multivitamins

It is shallow, so the needle only travels a short distance, and it has fewer pain-sensitive nerves than deeper tissue, so most people feel a small pinch rather than a deep ache

Deficiency is particularly common in elderly people, because the ability to absorb vitamin B12 can decrease with age

Our Energy and Super Energy injection cocktails combine B12 with B-complex for an even more potent energy boost

Source of Vitamin B12, Image Credit: marina_ua / Shutterstock Causes Vitamin B12 deficiency may arise due to: Nutritional deficiency especially in elderly individuals on restricted diets, and alcoholics Malabsorption syndromes such as pernicious anemia Gastrointestinal disorders leading to malabsorption such as atrophic gastritis or H2-receptor blocker use for prolonged periods Others such as Whipples disease or Crohns disease, intestinal surgery or strictures with resulting bacterial overgrowth that competitively take up vitamin B12 in the ileum Clinical features Hematologic Classically, vitamin B12 deficiency has been associated with megaloblastic macrocytic anemia