You need folic acid because it: maintains a healthy nervous system. works with vitamin B12 to form healthy red blood cells which carry oxygen around the body. helps break down, use and create proteins.

Folic acid helps make healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen around the body.

If you do not have enough folic acid, your body can make abnormally large red blood cells that do not work properly.

This causes folate deficiency anaemia, which can cause tiredness and other symptoms.

Folic acid will help you make healthy red blood cells and improve or prevent the symptoms of anaemia.

Folic acid usually starts to work in a few hours.

But if you’re taking it for folate deficiency anaemia, it may be a few weeks before you start to feel better.

It’s important to keep taking your folic acid for as long as it’s recommended.

Yes, you still need to take folic acid.

You need up to 10 times more folate in pregnancy to help your baby grow.

It’s unlikely that you would be able to have this much through diet alone.

A baby’s neural tube starts developing in the first 4 weeks of pregnancy (before your first missed period).

So it’s best to start taking folic acid as soon as you start trying to get pregnant.

In the UK and Ireland in the 1980s, before women were advised to take folic acid supplements, about 1 in 200 pregnancies resulted in a baby with a neural tube defect.

Taking folic acid in early pregnancy reduces this risk to 1 in every 400.

You’d struggle to describe an injection as a pleasant experience, but it certainly shouldn’t hurt. There may be a slight sting, as with the flu jab or a travel vaccine. If you follow the advice and keep your arm relaxed, dangling on the outside of your hip, this will make it far less likely to hurt. Relaxing your arm helps because the muscle fibres will also be relaxed and this makes it a much easier and comfortable injection.

Not really, but it’s always a good idea to have had your breakfast; it is after all the most important meal of the day for many good reasons. So long as your blood sugar is stable and you’re well hydrated you will be set to go.

The injection itself takes no more than a few moments, but the we will need to do a small amount of preparation beforehand. To save time it’s a good idea to wear a loose-fitting top, or clothing that gives plenty of access to the top of your arm. After the injection we will ask you to stay in the salon for up to 10 minutes. This is a precautionary measure after any injection treatments.

This will vary amongst people of different ages and circumstances. It may be a couple of days before you notice, or it could be sooner. Sometimes people don’t notice an immediate benefit, but rather realise a few weeks later that they are starting to feel as they were before the injection.

This will vary amongst people of different ages and circumstances. Ultimately the amount of benefit you experience and how long this last will determine how often you feel inclined to have a Folic Acid injection. Your Blood test can guide you about your Folic Acid requirements.

Yes, we do suggest that you regularly take a reputable multivitamin whilst having your B12 injections. Vitamin B12 is one of several vitamins that has a pivotal role in the body, so it’s important that through diet and supplementation we help our bodies to become rich in all of these vitamins.

Consult your doctor for your requirements.

75 mg/ 5ml