nurse's notes

IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA- iron deficit in which the blood hemoglobin and the red blood cell count are below normal level



CAUSES:

• failure of the patient to ingest or absorb sufficient dietary iron to compensate for the iron requirement
• loss of iron due to bleeding such as gastrointestinal bleeding, excessive menstrual flow
• due to increase of iron requirement during pregnancy and menstruation

SYMPTOMS:
for mild anemia-

• limited pallor
• fatigue
• dyspnea- difficulty of bleeding

for severe anemia-

• hemoglobin count result is below 8 gm. per 100 ml (12 gm. normal hemoglobin count)
  
• weakness
• fatigability
• breathlessness
• cardiac palpitation
• sore of the tongue
• nail brittle-spoon shaped

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