Vitamin B12: A Defense Against Oral Candidiasis—Fact or Fiction? Insights from Science

A real back of a medal with excessive consumption of the day before, we can be tempted to find all kinds of remedies for this unpleasant state.

A cocktail of vitamins

It is also on this that the Berlin company Hangover Refresh capitalizes, which offers not to have a wooden mouth thanks to a infusion “saline solution and vitamins directly at home at LIT ”, intended for patients under the age of 60 and deliverable in the city center of Berlin on weekends from Saturday to Sunday.

And among these vitamins, we lend in particular to the B12 almost magical virtues to fight against the mouth of wood. However, even if it is present in the liver, during an ethyl coma, doctors administer “a” Cocktail »vitamin B1, vitamin B6 and 5 % glucose serum”, As Xataca specifies.

The B12 complex, not vitamin B12

“” “Health professionals, when they ask for the cocktail of vitamins to treat alcoholic poisoning, speak of the “B12 complex””. A sort of jargon that has helped fuel rumors.

As defined by the MSD manual, “Vitamin B12 (Cobalamines), with Folate, is necessary for the formation and maturation of red blood cells as well as the synthesis of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which is the genetic material of cells”. It is notably present in the liver, hence this received idea.

Drinking in moderation

Absolutely necessary for nervous function, vitamin B12 is, still according to the manual, in various foods such as “The meats (mainly beef, pork, liver and other offal), eggs, enriched cereals, milk, clams, oysters, salmon and tuna ”.

In conclusion, beware: as Dr. Géraldine Talbot, addictologist and member of the Addiction Federation with the Federal Union of Consumers, points out, “SI We project ourselves as having a solution to the mouth of wood, one risks abusing alcohol instead of arranging its consumption”. The main thing is to consume in moderation!