Not exact matches
Healthy and full - term Infants who are exclusively breastfed are also seldom at risk for
iron deficient anemia especially if the baby does not begin solid foods
earlier than 6 months old.
In an
earlier study of the same 28 piglets used in the new analysis, the scientists found that those fed
iron -
deficient diets for the first four weeks of life had smaller overall brain volume than those fed an
iron - sufficient diet.
The moral here: you may become
deficient in
iron / ferritin as soon as you get pregnant, and
earlier than the average woman, especially if you have a history of low ferritin.
I self - ordered my ferritin and
iron labs
earlier than recommended by my doctors, and found that I was
deficient in
iron once more!