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Title: Iron


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Iron deficiency
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Cut-points for hemoglobin (Hb
g/100ml) concentrations in blood defining anemia
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Changes with increasing iron deficiency
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Dietary iron availability
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  • Assessment
  • pale tongue/conjunctiva
  • if blood anyway collected, estimate Hb or
    (more readily) hematocrit
  • survey use fingerprick blood drop and
    colorimetric method like HemoCue.

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http//www.talcuk.org/index.htm
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  • Daily vs weekly iron supplementation.
  • Weekly no better then daily but may not be
    less effective (Beaton McCabe, 2000)
  • Achieving daily is difficult, unclear if in
    practice weekly will become monthly
  • Need anyway to move to multiple
    supplementation
  • Thus policy still disputed.

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Multiple supplementation (incl iron) estimated at
lt1/pregnancy
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