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How To Take An Iron Pill

Written by cyberscryber

02 February 2013

Some people simply cannot absorb iron via their digestive tract, but usually those people have had their stomach stapled, or have a digestive disease such as Crohn's diesease. However, often doctors and nurses do not adequately explain how and why to take iron pills. If you are having issues with iron not absorbing, make sure you are not taking them with anything you shouldn't be, and if that doesn't work, go back to your doctor and demand to find out why you are unable to absorb iron from your GI tract, and set up a treatment plan for IV iron infusions.

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