Do you feel so weak and tired lately that moving is quite hard for you? Then you may be experiencing anemia. Go and take a visit to your doctor because you might need an iron deficiency treatment before it’s too late.

Anemia is simply defined as the decrease of number of your red-blood cells which is not normal. Lack of red blood cells is very dangerous since iron is the building black of every red-blood cell and without iron we don’t have energy to perform our daily activities. When the body does not have sufficient number of iron, it cannot produce many red blood cells and there will be small and unhealthy red blood cells instead. This is more known as the iron deficiency anemia and the most common form of anemia. Loss of red blood cells means lack of iron in our body.

So what are the symptoms? If ever you have a mild form of anemia, then there will be no symptoms. But they eventually develop slowly. If it’s mild, the symptoms can be feeling weak or being tired most of the time, feeling irritable, constant headaches and difficulty of staying focus and thinking. When it becomes worse, the symptoms are dizziness every time you stand up, whitish skin color, shortness of breath, brittle nails, aching tongue and blue color to the whites of the eyes.

Now, how does the anemia being treated? Before anything else, you must consult your doctor or your health care provider and find out the cause of your anemia. But eating food that is rich in iron and drinking supplements are significant piece of treating iron deficiency anemia. Ferrous sulfate or the iron supplements are essential for the production of irons in your body. If a patient cannot eat iron through the mouth, then it can be done through intravenous (vein) or injection into their muscle. For breastfeeding and pregnant women, they need to take in additional iron since their diet will not be enough to provide them the right amount of iron.

The hematocrit or the blood test that measures the percentage of the volume of the whole blood ought to return to normal after 2 months of iron treatment. But it is advisable to continue the iron medication for 6 – 12 months to replace iron found in the bone marrows.

Some of the iron-rich food are dried lentils, peas, and beans, fish, peanut butter, whole-grain bread, chicken, turkey, eggs (yolk), meats especially the liver, soybeans, oatmeal, raisins, prunes, apricots, spinach and kale. Eating iron-rich food can be an iron deficiency treatment.