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Health FAQs Weekly - Pernicious Anemia
"...we're just going to answer some of the questions that we haven't had a chance to answer over a long period of time and really now and then we will answer select questions that seem to be that we think a lot of people out there might be asking based on what we hear in the histories that come in based on what we hear from people who have the types of conditions that we address so the first question we're going to address today is pernicious anemia autoimmune seem to me that that one could be pretty well easily fact figured out on the internet Canada cause severe pain and tummy issues you described I think pernicious anemia is autoimmune but I think it's a very interesting thing to maybe expand on a little bit I just things that might be connected to and so is it autoimmune and it caused severe pain and tummy issues through describe the tummy guy will answer that now so relative to pernicious anemia technically it's autoimmune gastritis where the immune system is attacking your stomach with pernicious anemia specifically we have immune cells that attack intrinsic factor intrinsic factor is the product made in your stomach cells that binds the V12 so you can absorb your B12 but in that process a lot of patients have autoimmune gastritis may also have their immune system killing the parietal cells of the stomach as well and in the course of that means basically your immune system is killing your stomach just like if your immune system is killing your joints it would probably hurt a lot of patients who have autoimmune gastritis do have gastritis and stomach pain and we pick up this entity pretty frequently it's not very commonly tested for in the medical world unless you are egregious lie low and b12 that's been our experience and you also have to have a serum gastrin done as well because gastrin is a hormone made in your stomach and when your stomach is breaking down gastrin goes up that's one way to detect pernicious anemia or ottoman gastritis the answer the..."
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"...we're just going to answer some of the questions that we haven't had a chance to answer over a long period of time and really now and then we will answer select questions that seem to be that we think a lot of people out there might be asking based on what we hear in the histories that come in based on what we hear from people who have the types of conditions that we address so the first question we're going to address today is pernicious anemia autoimmune seem to me that that one could be pretty well easily fact figured out on the internet Canada cause severe pain and tummy issues you described I think pernicious anemia is autoimmune but I think it's a very interesting thing to maybe expand on a little bit I just things that might be connected to and so is it autoimmune and it caused severe pain and tummy issues through describe the tummy guy will answer that now so relative to pernicious anemia technically it's autoimmune gastritis where the immune system is attacking your stomach with pernicious anemia specifically we have immune cells that attack intrinsic factor intrinsic factor is the product made in your stomach cells that binds the V12 so you can absorb your B12 but in that process a lot of patients have autoimmune gastritis may also have their immune system killing the parietal cells of the stomach as well and in the course of that means basically your immune system is killing your stomach just like if your immune system is killing your joints it would probably hurt a lot of patients who have autoimmune gastritis do have gastritis and stomach pain and we pick up this entity pretty frequently it's not very commonly tested for in the medical world unless you are egregious lie low and b12 that's been our experience and you also have to have a serum gastrin done as well because gastrin is a hormone made in your stomach and when your stomach is breaking down gastrin goes up that's one way to detect pernicious anemia or ottoman gastritis the answer the..."
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