Posts Tagged ‘hemoglobin’
Treatment of Anemia
The treatment of anemia depends on the cause. If your iron deficiency anemia is caused by, you’ll probably get extra iron in the form of tablets or a drink. Never use iron supplements without first consulting the person who accompanies pregnancy. These resources can cause black stools or constipation, this is normal and not alarming.
It is therefore important that your diet contains high fiber and that you drink enough.
If you simultaneously use vitamin C (eg from fruit or fruit juice) improves the absorption of iron. Coffee, tea and milk decrease the absorption of iron properly. Use these drinks so not during the meal, but for example mid-morning and afternoon. Have your blood checked regularly if you use a long iron preparations. Read the rest of this entry »
Anemia
Anemia is an inadequate rate of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Anemia is the complete blood count, a hemoglobin below 11 grams per liter.
Anemia is not necessarily a lack of red blood cells. You can have a normal number of red blood cells, they are too small: a shortage of hemoglobin. Conversely, you can have red blood cells too big, apparently insufficient in number, whereas the hemoglobin may be normal: there is no anemia.
These parameters are identified on the blood count for red cells or erythrocytes or RBCs, or Hb hemoglobin, MCV, which defined the mean corpuscular volume and thus its size, which defined the MCH rates mean corpuscular hemoglobin, ie the a red blood cell contains about as hemoglobin. Read the rest of this entry »