anemia

Iron 101

Iron 101

This week I found out that another person I care about has an iron deficiency….not anemia, but low ferritin levels. In hindsight, this may have been going on for quite sometime, but because typically doctors check hemoglobin levels only iron deficiency without anemia can be missed.

Iron: the Good, Bad and Ugly

Iron: the Good, Bad and Ugly

This week I found out that I have an iron deficiency….not anemia, but low ferritin levels. In hindsight, this may have been going on for quite sometime, but because typically doctors check hemoglobin levels only iron deficiency without anemia can be missed.