hydroxocobalamin

However, you will need follow-up medical care after receiving hydroxocobalamin.

Do not start using a new medication without telling your doctor if you have recently be treated with hydroxocobalamin.

Like other forms of vitamin B, hydroxocobalamin has an intense red color.

Hydroxocobalamin may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.

Since hydroxocobalamin is used in an emergency, you will most likely be given only one or two doses of this medication.

Your doctor or pharmacist has information about hydroxocobalamin written for health professionals that you may read.

However it has now been made obsolete by hydroxocobalamin if this newer medicine is available.

Hydroxocobalamin can make your skin more sensitive to sunlight and sunburn may result.

Hydroxocobalamin is used in an emergency to treat cyanide poisoning.

Tell any doctor who treats you that you have recently received a hydroxocobalamin injection.

It is not known whether hydroxocobalamin passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby.

An overdose of hydroxocobalamin is extremely unlikely.

Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking other products that contain cyanocobalamin, vitamin B12, or hydroxocobalamin.

Hydroxocobalamin reacts with cyanide to form cyanocobalamin, which can be safely eliminated by the kidneys.

In cases of cyanide poisoning the patient is given hydroxocobalamin, which is a precursor to cyanocobalamin.

It can be treated with injections of replacement vitamin B (methylcobalamin, hydroxocobalamin or cyanocobalamin).

You may develop an acne-like skin rash from 1 week to as late as 4 weeks after you are treated with hydroxocobalamin.

Hydroxocobalamin works by helping cells in the body convert cyanide to a form that can be removed from the body through urination.

The hydroxocobalamin binds with the cyanide ion and forms cyanocobalamin which can then be secreted by the kidneys.

More recently, hydroxocobalamin, methylcobalamin, and adenosylcobalamin can be found in more expensive pharmacological products and food supplements.

Cyanocobalamin is converted to its active forms, first hydroxocobalamin and then methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin in the liver.

B supplements are available in forms including cyanocobalamin, hydroxocobalamin, methylcobalamin, and adenosylcobalamin (sometimes called "cobamamide" or "dibencozide").

Cyanide is naturally present in activated charcoal, and hydroxocobalamin, which has great affinity for cyanide, picks it up, and is changed to cyanocobalamin.

These may be supplemented, although since cyanocobalamin contains the toxic chemical cyanide, dogs which have serious cobalamin issues should instead be treated with hydroxocobalamin or methylcobalamin.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration approved (in 2006) the use of hydroxocobalamin for acute treatment of cyanide poisoning.