A small study suggests that vitamin B12 would be a safe, effective and economical against recurrent thrush.
“The frequency (of recurrent thrush) is 25 percent in the general population,” said Ilia Volkov, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
The cause of recurrent thrush. In these years, tried various treatments, such as adhesive pastes, antiseptics, vitamins, herbs and steroids.
Although these treatments reduce pain or the number of injuries in the short term, very few proved to have a lasting effect.
The team led by Volkov had already discovered that the treatment of recurrent aphthae with vitamin B12 had lasting results.
In the latest study on 58 volunteers, the team declined to confirm the effectiveness of vitamin B12 on a comparison of results between a group of actively treated patients and a control group that received “placebo.”
The results were published in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Compared with placebo, treatment with vitamin B12 significantly reduced pain, number of ulcers and the duration of outbreaks at five and six months. That improvement did not vary by level of vitamin B12 in the blood of patients at baseline.
In the last month of treatment, 74.1 percent of patients treated with vitamin B12 had no ulcers, compared with 32 percent of the control group.
The authors say it is not known exactly how vitamin B12 produces these benefits. The fact that the treatment gave such good results regardless of the initial level of vitamin B12 in blood suggests that vitamin would have some as yet unknown functions.