Posted on January 20, 2008 in Latest News
Iron Deficiency Anemia (also called IDA) is a condition where a person has inadequate amounts of iron to meet body demands. It is a decrease in the amount of red cells in the blood caused by having too little iron. Because their cells aren’t getting enough oxygen, people with anemia may feel fatigued, listless, dizzy and confused.
Why women?
Iron-deficiency anemia occurs more often in women than in men. Anemia affects an estimated 400 million women worldwide, and most women are unaware of the symptoms and tend to attribute such mild symptoms to the stresses of modern life. Men can get it, too, but women who have lower iron stores and regularly lose iron in various circumstances are more susceptible.
One reason women are more susceptible to iron-deficiency anemia is that, besides losing the one to two milligrams of iron that’s normally expelled from the body every day, women lose an additional one milligram a day during menstruation.
Pregnant women may develop anemia for two reasons. First, while the number of red blood cells increases during pregnancy, the amount of fluid, or plasma, containing the cells goes up even more. The result is that the ratio of red blood cells to plasma changes. Women also can lose iron during childbirth, when as much as 250 to 300 milligrams of iron may be lost through bleeding.
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