Vitamin B12 Deficiency and Infantile Convulsions

Abstract

The association of vitamin B12 deficiency and benign familial infantile convulsions (BFIC) is reported in one 4-month-old boy admitted to the University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, and in an additional 4 of 14 infants with BFIC who were found to have homocysteinuria or methylmalonic aciduria.

Keywords

• vitamin b12 deficiency
• benign familial infantile convulsions
• homocysteinuria