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Anemia: Symptoms, Treatments, Types, and Homoeopathic Approach

ANAEMIA Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or their oxygen-carrying capacity is insufficient to meet physiologic needs, which vary by age, sex, altitude, smoking, and pregnancy status. In adults, the lower extreme of the normal hemoglobin is taken as 13.0 g/dl for males and 11.5 g/dl for females. Newborn infants have higher hemoglobin level and, therefore, 15 g/dl is taken as the lower limit at birth, whereas at 3 months the normal lower level is 9.5 g/dl. Clinical features of anemia reflect diminished oxygen supply to the tissue. A rapid onset of anemia (e.g. due to blood loss) causes more profound symptoms than a gradually developing anemia. IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA Iron deficiency is the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world.   A few salient facts         In developing countries every second pregnant woman and about 40% of preschool children are estimated to be anemic.          In many developing countries, iron deficien