Merry Christmas everyone 🎄⛄Following on from my post about my daughter's Vitamin D and Folate deficiency diagnosis, attached are my daughter's blood test results.
I wanted a copy to check if they'd checked her B12 as I was concerned about her starting Folic acid if deficient in B12 . I don't see anything at all on these results?
When I was diagnosed with PA and MA, my MCH and MCV levels were miles out, but I can't see anything to show low Folate & Vit D that they diagnosed her with from these results. Am I missing something?
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The blood results are really quite normal. The only thing outside the ranges is the red cell count; it's not serious, and that is reflected by the MCH and MCV being near the lower limits of the ranges. I would check the Iron status/ferritin in case she's a bit low in the iron stakes. There might be another page of results out there somewhere; it's worth checking, for B12 and folate. As for Vitamin D, deficiency is very common, especially in Winter.
Thank you for that.Apart from many in England being deficient in Vitamin D due to lack of sun during winter months, I couldn't see where is showed, and also where Folate was low.
My daughter said that's all she was sent.
I'll mention looking on the NHS app that Nackapan mentioned to see if there is anymore.
Looking at the results, I wondered about whether her iron levels might be low because haemaglobin, MCV and MCH are at the lower end of the normal range.
I think I said on a thread of yours a while ago that in UK, guidance suggests that people who are symptomatic for B12 deficiency should be treated even if serum B12 is within normal range.
I had over 50 typical symptoms of B12 deficiency with most of my serum B12 results from 300 - 500 ng/L. I had had one below range result in past.
Links to forum threads where I left detailed replies with lots of B12 deficiency info eg causes and symptoms, UK B12 documents, B12 books, B12 films, B12 websites and B12 articles and a few hints on dealing with unhelpful GPs.
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Daughter diagnosed with b12 deficiency result was 109
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