An alcoholic client who is prescribed cyanocobalamin (Crystamine) states, I don t understand why my health care provider has prescribed B12 injections. The nurse s response would be based on which of the following physiologic concepts?
1. Diets of alcohol-dependent clients are often deficient in this nutrient.
2. Ethanol facilitates folate metabolism in the liver.
3. Alcoholic clients are at high risk for pernicious anemia.
4. Liver cirrhosis diminishes natural physiologic deposits of B12.
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