megaloblastic anemia
Vitamin-deficient blood condition
Megaloblastic anemia is a blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces abnormally large, immature red blood cells that cannot function properly.
It typically results from deficiency of vitamin B12 or folate, which are essential for DNA synthesis.
Symptoms include fatigue, weakness, and pallor: The doctor suspected megaloblastic anemia when blood work showed enlarged red cells.
- pallorUnhealthy facial whiteness
- glossitisTongue inflammation disorder
- shortness of breathDifficulty inhaling enough air
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
cobalamin · B12 shots · leafy greens · beef liver · neuropathy · nerve damage · DNA synthesis · weakness · chronic alcoholism · atrophic gastritis · stomach lining · homocysteine · vitamin B12 · macrocytic · blood smear · tingling · bone marrow biopsy · heart palpitations
- Anemiairon deficiency, hemoglobin, low hemoglobin, low iron, sickle cell
- Anemiasthalassemia, B12 deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency
- B12 deficiencyvitamin B12, B12 deficiency, vitamin B12 deficiency, cobalamin, B12 injections
- blood disorderssickle cell disease, thalassemia, leukemia, leukopenia, neutropenia
- cell diseasesleukemia, sickle cell, thalassemia, neutropenia, polycythemia
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation