Iron shortage

Yesterday we went for the lab results. Her ANA was fine ( I am very glad about that!). Only her iron was low. It kinds of surprises me because she is a red meat lover. And we eat a lot of beef.
Iron was high enough to make new blood cells but to low for her hair.
Now she needs to take slow fe ( and lots of fruit and water so she doesn't get constipated).
Susan did grow ( length wise) a lot over the summer.

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Permalink Reply by GardenJess on April 22, 2014 at 5:30pm

If only it were easy to have iron levels monitored under a doctor's care! After most of the hair on my head was gone, I had bloodwork done, only to be told everything was normal. My hemoglobin levels were at the bottom of the "normal" range for women. I requested a ferritin test and got back a level of 18, with the comment that it was "low normal" and I should eat an iron rich diet. It is a wee bit annoying to think that a general acceptance of low iron in females as normal, despite any obvious physiological reason why women shouldn't need as much iron as men, could have triggered what might be life long hair loss. I hope your teen sees regrowth. I'm definitely not a teen, and have had low normal hemoglobin whenever I was tested as an adult.

Permalink Reply by Hencin83 on December 15, 2016 at 7:22pm

Hello..  it has been 3 years since your last post. I wonder how is your daughter now? For how long the hair shedding?  When the hairs started to grow, are they still shedding a lot?  Thank you

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