A Full Blood Count Should Include Vitamins
A Full Blood Count Should Include Vitamins
Why this petition matters
Patients often think when their doctors tells them they are having a full blood count that everything is checked. This is a misunderstanding. Vitamins are not routinely checked. A Vitamin D Deficiency can cause
Getting sick or Infected often
Fatigue and Tiredness
Bone and Back Pain
Depression
Impaired Wound Healing
Bone Loss
Hair Loss
Muscle Pain
A Vitamin B12 Deficiency can cause
Fatigue, falling asleep in the day
Lack of Energy
Breathlessness
Palpitations
Pins and Needles and Electric shock Feelings
Memory Problems
Migraines
Dizzy, Feeling Faint
Blurry Vision
and many others.
GPs need to check for vitamin deficiencies before they start loading patients up with pharmaceutical drugs for numerous symptoms that are costly and have so many distressing side effects and which could so easily be rectified with cheap vitamins.