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My wife is enemic .doc says that iron is not absorb by body.hemoglobin goes to level 6.5 please sugest the appropriate medicine?
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If iron is not: Absorbed and the cause of the anemia is definitively iron deficiency, then the therapy is intravenous iron.
Answered 8/15/2013
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