Why is iron in the blood important?
Iron is an essential mineral which is vital for proper body growth and development and has numerous important roles. Our body needs to produce haemoglobin, protein of the red blood cells. If the body doesn’t have enough haemoglobin, the tissue and muscles won’t be getting enough oxygen to work efficiently. This leads to a condition called anaemia.
The most common symptoms of iron deficiency are: chronic unusual feeling of tiredness and general body weakness, pale skin (more than usual), shortness of breath, headaches, palpitations, damaged hair and skin, fragile nails. Anaemia is frequent in developing children, women with heavy periods, pregnant women, vegetarians (due to their diet), and the elderly.
If you feel that you might be suffering from iron deficiency, be sure to seek advice from your physician to check your blood count and see whether you’re right. Based on the results, your physician will tell you whether the issue is less serious, meaning that you can try to improve your condition through food, or whether medication is needed. The main goal is to get the level of haemoglobin back to normal and to replenish your iron stores. If the iron deficiency hasn’t escalated, you can start on changing your diet. Iron rich foods include red meat (beef and pork, but poultry as well), dark green vegetables (spinach, kale, lettuce), dried fruits such as raisins and apricots, peas, beans and other legumes, nuts.
Along with sufficient nutrition, you can include Revita Fe Forest Berries in your diet. It’s a forest fruit tasting enjoyable drink which, along with royal jelly and vitamin C, contains divalent chelated iron. Even though many iron based dietary supplements have a so-called metallic taste, cause nausea or uneasiness in the stomach, that is not the case with Revita Fe.
Try to avoid dough, pasta, white flour, and should you choose supplementation of any kind – avoid the consumption of coffee, tea and dairy products two hours before and after taking the supplement since they decrease iron absorption.
The duration of iron-based supplement therapy varies from person to person and depends on how the body reacts to the iron intake, and whether it is optimally absorbed. For some people progress is already evident after a month, but the first blood count test is advised 3 months from the start of dietary supplements.
