Is vitamin B12 necessary for vitiligo patients?

Vitiligo patients are lack of some kind of trace mental elements in their blood and white spots position,thus decreasing the tyrosinase activity and influence the synthesis and metabolism of melanin.This will lead to the vitiligo disease. Vitamin B12 are the most vitamin easy to be neglected for vegetarian and they will be easily lack of vitamin B12. However,vitamin B12 are the indispensable necessary element for the generation of erythrocyte. If you lack of vitamin B12 severely, it will lead to perniciousanemia. Vitamin B12 is a kind of comparatively special vitamins and it almost can not be found in vegetables at all. It only exists in nori and seaweeds. Although this kind of vitamin B12 belongs to B vitamins, it can be stored in the internal livers and after the storage be used up, patients can appear the symptoms of lack vitamin B12. Human’s demand for vitamin B12 is quite little. As if your diet habit is normal,the vitamin B12 will be enough. But for some patients who are of poor absorbing ability and vegetarians, they should pay attention to their diet habit especially. Its main physiological function includes:

First, it can protect the storage and transfer of folic acid in cell. When people are lack of vitamin B12, the content of folic acid in human red blood cell will be quite low. And the decrease of folic acid in internal livers maybe related to vitamin B12 deficiency causing methyl transfer difficulty to change from homocysteine to methionine. Methyl gathers in cells and damages the storage of four hydrogen folic acid within the cell. Because the tendency that four hydrogen folic acid combines with methyl to form methyltetrahydrofolate are strong,and the latter will compound polyglutamic acid.

Second, vitamin B12 can promote the biosynthesis of protein and its deficiency will influence the growth of baby.

The causes of vitiligo are quite complicated, such as inheritance, immunity, trauma, malnutrition and etc. Therefore, different causes have different treatment therapy. Vitiligo is a kind of chronic disease, and in daily life, patients must follow professional treatment and pay attention to reasonable diet.

If you want a further knowledge about vitiligo causes, you can send your own problem to vitiligocure@hotmail.com and we will give you a professional solution. After all, the symptoms are similar, but the real conditions are different.To treat this illness,we need to find the authentic pathogenesis according to different conditions of different patients.