Benefits of Vitamin B12 Injections?

Vitamin B-12 belongs to the B-complex family. While it is most widely available from food sources, it can also be obtained from nutritional supplements, patches or injections. There are several benefits offered by vitamin B-12 injections.

Vitamin Deficiency

Injections are a widely used treatment for vitamin B-12 deficiency, which most commonly affects elderly people and strict vegetarians and vegans.

Rapid Absorption

The B-12 shot is injected deep into muscle, which has the benefit of fast absorption into your bloodstream.

Pernicious Anemia

These shots are often used to treat pernicious anemia, a condition caused by a drastic decrease in red blood cells, which in turn results from impaired B-12 absorption in the body.

Shaky Leg Syndrome

Preliminary clinical research shows that cyanocobalamin, an injectable form of vitamin B-12, may help relieve the tremors that result from shaky leg syndrome, a metabolic sleep disorder.

Malabsorption Syndrome

The injections are also used to help people who suffer from malabsorption syndrome and who cannot absorb the vitamin from food or conventional drugstore tablets.

References

• NIH: Vitamin B-12 injections
• Comparison of oral and injectable forms of vitamin B-12
• MedLine Plus: Vitamin B-12