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- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
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Deficiency - folic acid, Folic acid deficiency
Symptoms
Folic acid deficiency may cause:
- Diarrhea
- Gray hair
- Mouth ulcers
- Peptic ulcer
- Poor growth
- Swollen tongue
Signs and tests
Folate deficiency can be diagnosed with a blood test. Pregnant women usually have such blood tests during prenatal checkups.
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Folate deficiency Treatment
Review Date: 08/09/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Yi-Bin Chen, MD, Leukemia/Bone Marrow
Transplant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed
by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
