Iron deficiency symptoms and Healing properties of Iron
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- Iron deficiency is generally caused by severe blood loss, malnutrition, infections, and by excessive use of drugs and chemicals.
- Severe blood loss can occur due to a major injury to blood vessels, or rupture of aneurysms, perforation of internal organs, incomplete abortion, and severe menstrual bleeding.
- Repeated pregnancies, prolonged breast feeding, and excessive sweating during summer also reduce the iron content in the blood.
- The volume of fluid in the body is also reduced.
- Deficiency of iron in the diet may cause nutritional anemia, lowered resistance to disease, a general rundown condition, pale complexion, shortness of breath on manual exertion, and loss of interest in sex.
- The patient may suffer from mental depression and irritability.
- When there is severe blood loss, the body becomes pale and cold with profuse sweating. The patient becomes extremely exhausted and finds great difficulty in breathing. The mind becomes dull and the patient may become unconscious. If blood transfusion or some other method is not adopted immediately to prevent further blood loss and shock, the patient may die soon.
Healing Properties of Iron
- Eating foods rich in iron regularly and keeping the gastro-intestinal tract healthy is one of the safest and more potent methods of preventing iron deficiency.
- Different types of anemias may be due to different causes. However only iron-deficiency anemia responds to the supplementary intake of iron.
Precautions
Iron stored in the body in excess quantities is harmful.
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February 7, 2008 | Filed Under Minerals
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