Complicated Iron happens when a person has a disease or a condition where the achievement of
iron balance is not simple.
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Chronic Fatigue and Weakness
Irregular Heart Beat
Pain
Headaches
Changes in the Skin
Many of these patients have serious health problems that require
multiple treatments such as repeated blood transfusion, iron infusions, iron injections and
then iron-chelation therapy to remove the extra iron. Some may need EPO (erythropoeitin) to
stimulate bone marrow. Some diseases are easier to correct where iron balance is restored;
for example H. pylori infection, acquired sideroblastic anemia, enzyme disorders such as G6PD
deficiency (Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) and PKD (pyruvate-kinase deficiency).
Other diseases can be chronic (ongoing), where reaching iron balance is a struggle;
for example: kidney disease, cancer, thalassemia, sickle cell disease,
CDA II (HEMPAS), inherited sideroblastic anemia, MDS (myelodysplasia), porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT),
hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), AIDS, Crohn's, celiac disease, and
autoimmune hemolytic anemias.
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