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Anemia.
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Melting Mama
I went today for a prenatal appointment. Doc comes in, announces that he won't bother looking for a heartbeat via doppler because we won't find it - and he doesn't want to make me "nervous" if he can't find it. I assure him that I'm okay with that, it's only ten weeks, I have never heard a fetal heart beat this early from a doppler anyw ...
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Anemia
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Julia J.
Anemia is iron deficiency, in Sanskrit it is called panduroga: disease that turns the body pale. Many many people are anemic and it's causes can be an imbalance of any dosha. Check your other symptoms to see which dosha is imbalanced. Of course you can eat more iron, but iron is very difficult to digest, and anemia is often caused by weak digestio ...
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Anemia
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Joanne J.
Friday I saw a 22-year-old girl die. You might not want to continue reading and that's ok, this is a difficult entry. I came into the labor ward at 7:30 and saw her in the high-risk section, sitting upright in bed, breathing fast and hard with obvious effort. The night nurse said she had delivered a stillborn a few hours previously and although she ...
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The Complexity of Anemia
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Lisa LaMendola
Anemia is a condition in which you don't have enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen to your tissues. Signs and symptoms vary depending on the cause of your anemia, but may include: fatigue, pale skin, fast or irregular heartbeat, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, cold hands & feet, headaches, and cognitive problems. ...
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The Anemia Legacy
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Matt M.
Anemia continues to affect millions of people around the world despite increasing availability of iron. This presents a puzzle of sorts, as to why this conditon would continue despite an obvious and relatively cheap solution of iron supplementation.A new study looks at anemia from an evolutionary perspective and provides some answers. The authors ...
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addressing anemia
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Kim C.
On an eloop I follow, there has been a discussion about anemia in the childbearing year or really anytime. Here are some of the suggestions: Molasses on oatmeal Real black licorice, like Panda - it contains molasses Yellow dock tincture Cooking in a cast-iron pan Floradix (both vegetarian & non-vegetarian) Take a supplement with food-base ...
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Anemia 2
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Julia J.
It's time to write a bit more about Anemia. I wrote something down awhile ago here, but I want to stress again that anemia is more complex than just eating iron rich foods, or not. In fact, iron deficient anemia is rare is men and post-menopausal women. Anemia is caused by a deficiency of rakta tissue, red blood cells, or haemoglobin within those ...
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Iron Deficiency Anemia
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Nikki M.
Last week I posted, Pale and Worried. My first thought was to check out WebMD to attempt an initial self diagnosis - you know, because I am a trained physician. Nevertheless, "Greg" posted a comment about a site call Revolution Health. Once I logged onto the site I had a revelation. Perhaps Muddear is pale because of her anemia. (It only ...
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Anemia of chronic disease
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pathologystudent
The second most common type of anemia (after iron-deficiency anemia) is anemia of chronic disease (ACD). This is a mild to moderate anemia accompanying infections, inflammatory disorders or malignant diseases that persist more than 1-2 months (examples include pulmonary infections endocarditis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, carcinoma, lymphoma, and ...
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