What are the advances in management of Iron Deficiency Anemia? - Dr. Satish Kumar

Iron deficiency anaemia is the most common cause of anaemia, especially in developing countries like India. Nowadays we have better tools to manage Iron deficiency anaemia. We should avid transfusions as much as possible in treating patients with Iron deficiency anaemia. Again depending on the symptoms, we manage the patients with Iron deficiency anaemia. If the patient does not have any significant complaints, we can manage with iron pills. If they are very symptomatic and if we get to need the haemoglobin to normal as early as possible, we have injectable iron, we have very safe injectable iron. People have lot of myths about injectable iron. Nowadays the newer preparations of injectable iron are extremely safe, very less risk of allergy and improve the haemoglobin very early it can be used very safely in pregnancy too.