The Basics of Iron Deficiency Anemia

Michael: We're only about 30 million of them in the United States. And we shall come in exhausted typically, he says. Michael: The typical patient you look at her tongue looks like someone sandpapered it. She's miserable and then you say, well, did you have iron pills and she'll go, Oh, yes, they make me so sick. They're so constipating. I don't take them. He says 70% of people to whom it's given reports significant gastrointestinal perturbation and serious adverse events with intravenous iron are so rare that you would have to live to be very old to see one.