The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-3329
Print ISSN : 0040-8727
ISSN-L : 0040-8727
Folic Acid Deficiency Due to a Low-phenylalanine Diet
Tsuneo ArakawaKeiichi HirataKazuo OharaMasako FujiiYoshihiko TakahashiHisako Kato
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1965 Volume 87 Issue 3-4 Pages 296-300

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A 3-year-8-month-old boy with phonylketonuria who had been placed on a low-phenylalanine diet (“Lofemilk”) developed folic acid deficiency due to a low content of folate in this diet. An oral administration of synthetic pteroylglutamic acid in an amount of 100γ per day was found to be sufficient to meet needs of folic acid for this patient.

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