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Re: An Answer to my own Question

From: Jenny (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:33:40 -0600 (CST)

I don't know who you are, but I'll take the info from a doctor I know, even if she is a pathologist, and the info from the bottles of hair and nail vitamins that B's are necessary for hair and nails.

At Thu, 25 Jan 2001, =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi wrote: >
>Hi JEnny,
>I think I have answered this. Vitamin B has NOTHING to do with nails, hair and the skin. It is for the neural system plus incorporating iron into red blood cells.
>Check up my earlier posting
>Sam
>
>> I posted asking if there was a connection between metformin and my nails
>> breaking, splitting, and peeling. I asked everyone I could think of.
>> The pharmacist said it was probably the birth control pills. I don't
>> think so, I was on a stronger dose for 20 years with no prob. My GP
>> didn't know, but suggested I take pre-natal vitamins. The chief
>> pathologist where I work said that it was likely that the metformin
>> could cause this because of the vitamin B deficiency. She said B's are
>> used for hair and nails.
>>
>> --
>> Jenny

--
Jenny



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