Use Your Knowledge of the Treatments and Interactions Associated with Deficiency

question 2

Multiple Choice

Use your knowledge of the treatments and interactions associated with deficiency anemias to explain to a patient why she should not take cimetidine within 2 hours of her cobalamin treatment.

• A) Cimetidine decreases gastric acid so that vitamin B₁₂ cannot combine with available intrinsic factor, impairing but not totally inhibiting the absorption of vitamin B₁₂.
• B) Cimetidine decreases gastric acid so that vitamin B₁₂ cannot combine with available intrinsic factor, totally inhibiting the absorption of vitamin B₁₂.
• C) Cimetidine decreases intrinsic factor production so that vitamin B₁₂ cannot be absorbed.
• D) None of these are correct.

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