Iron deficiency.
What you need to know when your iron levels are low
This is Ben and he is 20 years old.
Ben was diagnosed with iron deficiency
anemia, and today
we are going to walk through,
what a day in his life
looks like. His condition causes him to feel fatigued through
most of the day and he frequently experiences
headaches. After climbing
a flight of stairs or exercising, he experience shortness of breath,
and becomes lightheaded. His skin looks pale and has become dry,
causing him to lose the glow.
he once had,
and he has recently noticed
his nails had become brittle and break easily. Other symptoms
that bad experiences includes hands and feet,
poor appetite and unusual craving for non-nutritive,
substances such as ice and starch.
Time should have 45 grams of iron stored in his
body in order to maintain healthy levels. Of this,
65% of iron is stored in
the form of hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin is a protein that is found in red blood
cells and transporting oxygen throughout the body region
molecule of hemoglobin molecules.
Once the red blood cell reaches,
an area of the body that requires oxygen.
Oxygen is released from the hemoglobin around 1 to 2
% of iron is stored in the form of a
king who is a ring-shaped molecule of hemoglobin hemoglobin.
Hemoglobin molecule contains 4 heme groups,
the final 32,
35% of iron is stored in the liver in the
form of ferritin,
which is a protein.
Can regulate the amount of iron in the body by
storing and releasing.
It is necessary that can be done to
determine if a store in a siren and can be
used as one type of diagnostic tool for iron deficiencies,
in two
different types of cells.
Iron is also able to break the expression of certain
genes do to Ben's iron deficiency,
some or all of these functions may not be performing
optimally,
which could cause some of the symptoms that bad experiences.
Iron,
deficiency.
Anemia is a common type of anemia iron
deficiency. Anemia develops over time because
Ben's bodies,
iron levels are too low,
low intake of iron can happen because of blood loss
consuming less than the recommended.
Daily amount of iron and medical conditions.
That makes it hard for one's body to absorb iron
from the digestive tract.
When you lose blood,
you lose iron certain conditions and medicines can cause blood
loss and lead to iron deficiency.
Anemia bleeding in your digestive
tract as a result of regular use of medicine,
such as aspirin,
or such as frequent
blood donations or blood.
For women as well as surgery recommended
daily amount of our independent once age gender and whether
the individual is pregnant or breast feeding.
This is a chart from National heart,
lung and Blood Institute showing the recommended daily amount of
iron that should be consumed in Ben's case,
since he is a 20 year old male.
He would fall into this category which means that is
reminded that he consumes 8 mg of iron per day.
Another cause of iron deficiency,
may be due to problems absorbing iron,
even if you consume the recommended daily amount of iron,
your body may not be able to absorb iron.
These conditions include intestinal and digestive conditions such as
celiacs disease or inflammatory bowel disease,
a history of gastrointestinal surgery such as weight loss,
surgery at certain rare genetic conditions such the mutation
that causes a person's body to block the intestines from
absorbing iron.
We will discuss the three stages of iron deficiency for
you to better understand the progression of iron deficiency.
Anemia.
The first stage is iron store depletion where iron store
level.
Is how Iron is stored in the body at the
stage?
There are usually no symptoms attributed to low-fat ferritin low.
At what happens when the condition progresses.
The second stage is iron deficient or we throw pieces
pieces.
There's a process of creating red blood cells during the
transportation of iron and is characterized by lower
production and size of red blood cells.
At the stage symptoms include fatigue and having a lack
of energy as well as having slower cognitive abilities,
the third and final stage is iron deficiency.
Anemia wear,
red blood cells are fewer number smaller.
And this is also known as a late-stage and
result in severe symptoms.
Seen with iron deficiency.
Anemia and Ben's case.
He's in the third stage and starts to feel extreme.
Fatigue, weakness, headache,
poor immune function,
and a lower ability to do physical work.
Physician has prescribed him oral iron supplements to increase his
iron levels to alleviate.
Any symptoms Ben has been advised to take his medication
with vitamin C pills or or used to increase absorption
of iron.
Other treatments include the delivery of Ironbridge fluid through IV.
Specifically for those,
were our an absorption at the level of intestine is
compromised as fraud prevention.
Iron deficiency can be prevented through implementation of
an iron-rich diet.
This includes red meat tofu fruits,
especially those with a higher vitamin C,
content, legumes,
leafy greens,
and broccoli for
any betters,
as they will inhibit,
the absorption of iron and these include coffee and tea,
milk corn and chocolate.
And we hope that this helps you.
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If you were interested to further your knowledge,
please refer to the following website at the national heart
lung and Blood Institute.