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re: OT Medical Professionals - Low Iron
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:01 pm to TheOcean
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:01 pm to TheOcean
You're going to want to take an iron product that restores circulating and and stored iron levels. taking something for the GI is key as those taking iron have upset stomachs from this-or constipation, bloating, etc. try fixing the cause, whatever that may be, likely diet-doesn't have to be meat, either. Try and find elemental iron and make sure the bioavailability is good. Vitamin C helps absorb iron. Dont take it with milk or calcium products either. Ferrous fumarate is for the transferrin levels, see if you can find something that helps with the ferritin as well.
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Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:03 pm to PurpleNGoldFan
Have any product recommendations from Amazon? 
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:04 pm to Elephino
quote:
Ferrous sulfate is the norm
It's cheapest and doesn't work that well
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:05 pm to TheOcean
Where do you live? Insurance coverage good? You'll likely want something prescribed and not off Amazon.
This post was edited on 8/7/15 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:06 pm to pleading the fifth
I'm 27. Blood in my stool happened when I was 25. Didn't see a doctor (pretty sure it was due to diet; I was having some stomach pain). Can't recall anyone in my family having colon cancer. Haven't talked to the doc, yet, so not sure of my #s.
Colonoscopy at 27?
Colonoscopy at 27?
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:28 pm to TheOcean
Colonoscopies are performed on people your age quite often for a number of reasons. For you specifically it would depend on the level of anemia honestly. If you have just an isolated low iron count with a normal hemoglobin/hematocrit concentration then it's no big deal really, just increase the amount of iron in your diet or take supplements. (Keep in mind iron supplements have their own share of side effects like constipation)
A low hemoglobin level in an otherwise healthy and active 27 year old who reports occasionally feeling lethargic warrants further investigation in my opinion. Your primary doctor may feel otherwise however.
A low hemoglobin level in an otherwise healthy and active 27 year old who reports occasionally feeling lethargic warrants further investigation in my opinion. Your primary doctor may feel otherwise however.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:37 pm to PurpleNGoldFan
Iron isn't absorbed particularly well to begin with, but ferrous salt forms and heme iron from meat are best. He's obviously not in bad enough shape to need infed injections. You are also arguing the difference between ferric and ferrous iron when you brought up transferrin and ferritin. Ferritin is a storage protein, transferrin is a transport protein; both have a high specificity for ferric iron. Ferrous iron is the preferred oxidation state for absorption in the small intestine. The body has an ascorbate (vitamin C) ferrireductase for accomplishing this reduction of ferric to ferrous. Once absorbed the ferrous iron is converted back to the ferric form by ferroxidase. Ferritin and transferrin store and transport iron in the ferric form so that it cannot undergo the Fenton reaction with hydrogen peroxide to form hydroxyl radicals, which are damaging.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:43 pm to pleading the fifth
And it's not my intention to sound scary or pessimistic. I've never seen a 27 year old with colon cancer ever, the only reason I asked was if someone in your family had colon cancer you need screening 10 years prior to when they were diagnosed. (i.e. If my parent was diagnosed at age 45 with colon cancer I need to get a colonoscopy screening no later than age 35)
Posted on 8/7/15 at 4:52 pm to pleading the fifth
Well, you definitely scared the frick out of me 
But this is all good so I can be more informed when I actually talk with the doctor. I asked the nurse if anything else was weird about the tests and she only said iron, so hopefully the extra tests are just a precaution
But this is all good so I can be more informed when I actually talk with the doctor. I asked the nurse if anything else was weird about the tests and she only said iron, so hopefully the extra tests are just a precaution
Posted on 8/7/15 at 5:31 pm to TheOcean
I'd be willing to bet they did an H/H and are going to do a TIBC and Ferritin level. It's a better indicator of iron stores.
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