Hello. I'm 24 year old female and I would like to find out about possibility that I have maybe developed some kind of iron allergy.
For almost all my life I'm suffering from some kind of Iron deficiency anaemia. I have never talked with some doctor over this because I though it isn’t anything serious. But these last couple of months I started to look pale as never before and feel almost constant tiredness. So, I have contacted my doctor which prescribed me some iron supplements pills. After taking these gel capsules for three days I have developed a really itchy rash around my neck and hairline and I was just wondering could it be that I'm allergic to iron!?
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Hello. I just want to tell you that you are definitely not alone with this problem because I have developed the same thing like you.
About three months ago I was also using some iron supplements for my anemia and almost the same day I have developed really strong rash all around my body and felt really bad.
I have contacted my doctor almost immediately over this because it looked really bad. He told me that the only thing he could do is to stop prescribing me this pills and recommended me some Venofer iron sucrose injection. It is used to replenish body iron stores in patients with iron deficiency on regular hemodialysis and receiving epoetin. This way I should avoid these terrible allergy-like symptoms. And it really helped me!
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does anyone know of a specialist for this allergy.
thanks
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Both my mother, aunt, and Grandmother had low iron until they had their children and had everything taken care of to not have more children. However, the doctor argues that my condition is NOT hereditary. My mother had the same reactions to iron that I do.
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I am a 35 year old female and have the same problem, I have tried taking several kinds of iron supplements and with each of them I end up with a burn like rash all over my face, neck, shoulders and in my hair. I cant even eat foods that have more than 2% iron in them or I brake out. It is good to know that I am not the only one out there that has a problem with this. i want to tell that 3 years ago i treated by steroid injection named[fermathron].after that i am suffring this problem.now if i take food that contain iron ,first of all my mouth become infected after that i feel breathing problem and last there is become fat in my stool.i am also loosing weaight.pls if some one knows docter inform me .
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Iron is POISON!
Supplements were removed from the shelves about 30 years ago as it is related to many illnesses, including heart attacks and strokes.
Be sure you have iron defficiency...this is **NOT*** the same as low haemoglobin! Heamoglobin is made from iron, B12, Vit C L-isileucine and a few other components that I cannot remember off-hand. Your dctor may believe that haemoglobin and Iron are the same thing.
DOCTORS ARE NOT TRAINED IN NUTRITION !!!!!!!
I am aware of this due to much research about 20 years ago when my wife had severe low haemoglobin anemia problems. The doctor wanted her in the hospital and couldn't believe she could stand up. She was anemic most of her life and suffered through various doctors prescribing iron supplement poisons repeatedly only to make her really sick, each time. This time she was prescribed four shots in the hip a month apart only to have that side of her body bruise up black and blue. I got her on some Vit C and for three to four years after if she stopped taking the vit C she bruised again from her knee to her mid side!
Researching it in the library, at that time, I found out it took more than just iron to make haemoglobin. We discussed this with our doctor about B12 pernicious anemia and his, like most other doctors, said "it wasn't possible as it was so rare!". As I discovered later doctors have less nutritional training than my car mechanic so we went ahead and supplemented her with my plan. B12 and L-Isoleucine, one of the BCAA amino acids, usually found as a combo only, for body builders. After a few months she felt much better and her haemoglobin is back to normal, including 30 years later. She also had a hysterectomy, after, to reduce further problems.
A1C Testing
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Another thing to watch for is the A1C glucose blood test. This is a test that uses the life span of your haemoglobin, being coated with blood sugars to indicate you have a diabetic/blood sugar problem. If you have a weird haemoblobin metabolism, this test is probably a nonsense indicator for you. As a result of this my wife has been diagnosed as diabetic, sent to nutritionalists, further tested and deemed a high risk patient for chloresterol medications. ALL a bunch of c**p to sell medication!. Further glucose ingestion testing with two different doctors over 25 years or time, and regular self-testing has shown it false every time.
Know your stuff and stop being a victim!
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I'm 26 a month early and was born anemic. Doctors were giving me liquid iron. My mom said that I did fine with it. But when I turned a year she said that it was giving me a rash so she stopped giving me liquid iron. Doctors had her feed me foods that have a lot of iron in them and I did great. My whole life I've been anemic. In my teens a doctor wanted to try me on pill form. I had to stop taking them because I would get super dizzy where my mom would have to pick me up from school after only an hour of being there. And I would get really bad headaches. Since then I haven't taken any liquid or pills for iron. I just eat foods with lots of iron in them and I'm not anemic. I still need to be check every month to see what level I'm at. I've been at 12(since november 2010) which is the highest level. In 2 months I went from a 10 to a 7 which is boarder line for a blood transfusion. I was having problems with stopping my periods so I bled off and on for 9 months because the docs didn't know what was wrong. One doc finally put me on birth control and it helped.
So eating peanut butter, spinach, beans, and other foods might help out.
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