
#84: Anemia, Iron Deficiency, IV iron, and Tony Stark
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Differences in Oral Iron Formulations
The new fancy Gucci oral irons that cost them fortune. They've been compared and they're not tolerated any better than the standard irons. There's something called sucrasomeal iron that looks like it might be interesting in the future. But again, it's months to a year and a half of therapy to do what we can do in 15 to 60 minutes. The real issue here is that babies who are born iron deficient,. We do not screen our babies even though evidence suggests that up to 20% are iron deficient.
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