Also known as: B6, Vitamin, PLP, Pyridoxal 5-Phosphate, Pyridoxine.

Deficiency of vitamin B6 has been implicated in a wide variety of clinical conditions. Important in neonatology, it is the syndrome of jittery characteristics, irritability, easy startling, colic and seizures due to B6 deficiency following ingestion of formula rendered B6 depleted by excessive heating. B6 may be decreased with inflammatory disease of the small bowel and malabsorption and in some cases of jejunoileal bypass.