{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "kind": "drug_profile",
  "generic": "cyanocobalamin",
  "review_status": "reviewed",
  "origin": "openfda",
  "sections": {
    "adult": [
      {
        "text": "A dose of 100 mcg daily for six or seven days should be administered by intramuscular or deep subcutaneous injection.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'dosage and administration', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      },
      {
        "text": "Schilling Test The flushing dose is 1,000 mcg.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'dosage and administration', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      },
      {
        "text": "Avoid using the intravenous route. Use of this product intravenously will result in almost all of the vitamin being lost in the urine. Pernicious Anemia Parenteral Vitamin B 12 is the recommended treatment and will be required for the remainder of the patient's life. The oral form is not dependable. A dose of 100 mcg daily for six or seven days should be administered by intramuscular or deep subcutaneous injection.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'dosage and administration', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      }
    ],
    "child": [
      {
        "text": "Intake in children should be in the amount (0.5 to 3 mcg daily) recommended by the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Science-National Research Council.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'pediatric use', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      }
    ],
    "renal": [
      {
        "text": "No kidney-impairment dose in this label. Not a statement that none is needed.",
        "source": "Read and found silent: the US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": false
      }
    ],
    "hepatic": [
      {
        "text": "No liver-impairment dose in this label. Not a statement that none is needed.",
        "source": "Read and found silent: the US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": false
      }
    ],
    "pregnancy": [
      {
        "text": "Adequate and well-controlled studies have not been done in pregnant women.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'pregnancy', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      },
      {
        "text": "However, Vitamin B 12 is an essential vitamin and requirements are increased during pregnancy.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'pregnancy', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      },
      {
        "text": "Amounts of Vitamin B 12 that are recommended by the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Science-National Research Council for pregnant women (4 mcg daily) should be consumed during pregnancy.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'pregnancy', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      }
    ],
    "lactation": [
      {
        "text": "Vitamin B 12 is known to be excreted in human milk.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'nursing mothers', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      },
      {
        "text": "Amounts of Vitamin B 12 that are recommended by the Food and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Science-National Research Council for lactating women (4 mcg daily) should be consumed during lactation.",
        "source": "US FDA label for cyanocobalamin (cyanocobalamin), section 'nursing mothers', retrieved 2026-08-29",
        "cached_file": "labels/cyanocobalamin.json",
        "verbatim": true
      }
    ]
  }
}