My DD is Anemic, I am glad I listened to my mummy intincts.

[skybie]

oh hun, im so glad u have answers and its not diabetes!
fingers crossed the supplement is all she needs to get back to her normal self

[meow]

A good friend of mine from playgroup found out her son had about the same iron levels about 6 months ago. She suspects he has coeliac disease. It's not confirmed as she said the test requires more food eliminations and blood tests- both of which he's had lots of lately so she's holding off for now. But she has put him on a gluten free diet and he's improved amazingly. She didn't want to use supplements (I'm not really sure why) so mostly she boosted his iron with organic livers and it worked really well.
Must be such a relief to have an answer and know you can help your daughter feel better now

[Rivlas]

DD1 levels got to 4 while she was a teenager and she still has problems. We found the best iron to take was in liquid form and it worked quickly and didn't muck up her bowels like some of the tablets can.
Her body doesn't take in iron from the foods she eats, weird child

[Visitor7]

DD1 levels got to 4 while she was a teenager and she still has problems. We found the best iron to take was in liquid form and it worked quickly and didn't muck up her bowels like some of the tablets can.
Her body doesn't take in iron from the foods she eats, weird child

I'm weird as well, my body doesn't store iron either.

salad - it's great that you now know what's happening and you can get it sorted.

[Salad]

Thanks for the replies everyone.
She eats so well and has a wide variety of food probably not alot of red meat, and come to think of it not a lot of other iron rich foods either. Hopefully the supplements work really well and she doesnt have to have B12 injections or anything. Can only wait now for the paed appointment to get some more information and answers.

[leckert]

My DS was diagnosed with low iron in January (about 7mths old) after we had blood tests because of a persistent cough and cold thing. His levels were down around 4. All we had to do was give him some liquid iron supplement. DH (who took DS for the results of the tests) was told by the chemist that sometimes the children don't like the taste of the iron stuff and that it could be washed down with a bit of juice if needed. DS takes his straight from the syringe that we use. We were told to get another BT after 2 months to see what his levels were like then. His levels have improved to be in the low end of normal (at 9 months) so we were told by the GP to keep up giving it to him for another month and then we could stop with the supplement.
Hopefully that's all it will take for your DD to improve her levels. We also made sure we tried to give DS meat a few times a week at home for dinner (wasn't always awake) - he tends to get some during the week at CC already.