Oral Iron Therapy

1 May 20171 May 2017

Iron deficiency anaemia is treated by iron supplementation that may be administered orally or parenterally.  Oral iron absorption is inefficient, is interfered by food and is associated with high incidence…

Intestinal Iron Absorption

18 Jan 201429 Apr 2017

Intestinal absorption of iron (figure 1) Iron absorption occurs in two steps Absorption of iron into the enterocyte at the luminal surface of the enterocytes Transport of iron to the…