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Anyone suffer from this? I don't really want to start taking iron tablets and would prefer to go down the food route to try and boost my levels. Would be grateful if anyone is aware of the best cereal for iron as a starting point.
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I was anaemic for years. Doctor eventually sent me for further tests at the hospital.
Eventually found out I had coelliac disease so had to go gluten free. Been good ever since. If it's an ongoing thing, I'd get it checked out for the cause. |
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Bran flakes and corn flakes,look for cereals stating that they are 100 percent iron-fortified........
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liver works very well for my daughter, she eats it every day feels better within 1 week.
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it's not the amount you take but the other foods you eat alongside.
milk,tea coffee etc all deplete iron at a monstrous rate . vit c goes hand in hand . iron tablets are rough on the system - better food sourced |
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just read that Cocoa is extremely high in iron ,and yet cocoa itself hinders the absortion rate
 what a bag of shyte |
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Guinness is good for you
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if you care to drink 30 pints of it a day to get your daily iron ,or around a lorryload of spinach
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old myths
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It is a good enough excuse for me to drink Guinness
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The Irish will come up with anything to flog their products
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just eat an iron filings sandwich washed down with a pint of liquidised liver.
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Paprika is a pretty decent source too , handy as you sling it into so many dishes and it gives a nice colour to food .
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I'm seeing the doctor about it along with other things
 but my granddaughter suffers from Coeliac disease and was really poorly until they realised and with a change in diet is back to her normal lovely self. My son also has it but was unaware he was a sufferer.Being tested for it as I've too much protein in my kidneys and this could be part of the cause so they're saying. |
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A lot of people are coelliac and don't realise it. I didn't.
I was constantly cream crackered, sh1tting through the eye of a needle 5 times a day, and always had anaemia. I thought it was IBS and getting old. I went gluten free and felt like a new man inside a couple of months - Walking down the street without thinking I was going to sh1t myself was a massive bonus for me. Negs - if you love normal crusty bread, cakes, biscuits, pizza, pies, beer etc your fooked. You can get GF alternatives but nothing like the real thing. Pos: It might not be coelliac ,in which case you can breath easy and carry on and just munch away on liver, guinness and spinach. |
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Coachbuster 29 Feb 16 22:00 Joined: 08 Apr 06 | Topic/replies: 31,336 | Blogger: Coachbuster's blog
it's not the amount you take but the other foods you eat alongside. milk,tea coffee etc all deplete iron at a monstrous rate . vit c goes hand in hand . iron tablets are rough on the system - better food sourced Correct. Good post. It's all about chemistry, which isn't straightforward, which is why nutritionists ignore it. If they were qualified in it, they wouldn't end up as nutritionists. Vit C does aid the absorption of iron in the form in which the latter is present in vegetables or cereals, so if you must drink tea within a couple of hours of eating veg, then drink the tea with lemon (high in vit C) rather than milk. The calcium in milk competes with iron, and the body absorbs the calcium rather than the iron. Even better, don't rely on vegetables or cereals in general for your iron. They contain phytates, which bind with iron to form compounds which pass straight through you. Instead eat red meat and/or shellfish. That's the way our bodies have evolved. Organ meat is best of all, because of all the other benefits. A portion of liver fried quickly once a week solves all sorts of problems with vitamin and mineral deficiencies. If you don't like it, get to like it: you need it. It's so cheap, pay for the best. Duck livers are excellent. Rinse them with water, then soak them for an hour or two in milk to draw out the more pungent tastes. Get the frying pan properly hot, perhaps while frying up some potatoes, onions, apples and peppers. Then just fry the livers for at most two or three minutes per side. That way they remain tender and they don't lose their iron etc. If you really, really can't face liver, then the blood in black pudding would solve just the iron issue. If you don't like black pudding, then you haven't tried it. |
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Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm having the same toilet problems as well Emden so it's all pointing to me being a sufferer.
Black pudding appeals though. Giving up Beer and bread would be a nightmare for me. |
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Don't go down the cereal route. Majority are full of refined wheat( flour) and sugar
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I don't know how this trial turned out, but here A Doctor Writes in the British Medical Journal:
Obstetricians like myself are all too aware that ferrous sulphate is often poorly tolerated in the management of iron-deficiency anaemia. Black pudding, naturally rich in iron, would appear to be the ideal alternative dietary supplement, especially in Bury, where it is documented to be consumed by 63% of the local population. I am contemplating conducting, in my unit, a randomised controlled trial of its use in the management of iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy, with a starting date of 01.04.03. The participants, after appropriate counselling, and with consent sought and documented, would be randomised to either ferrous sulphate (tab.form) 200mg., or black pudding (heat-treated) 200g., administered in a t.d.s. regimen in both arms of the trial. http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/29/black-pudding-therapeutic-potential Sounds like: Iron supplements - often poorly tolerated by the body Black pudding - what our bodies are evolved to make use of |
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I once bought a gluten free loaf years ago.
I can still taste it now, tasted of f uckin sand |
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was about 10 quid too
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well done screamingftw- you can explain it far better than me .
Nutrition is a funny business all round ,so many conflicting areas . Only recently discovered that yeast extract (or Marmite) is a really rich natural source of B vits ,all these years i though it was fortified in the way cereals are . I believe the b12 is added though |