thread: Iron supplements

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Jan 2007
    Sydney
    908

    Iron supplements

    Has anyone been told that iron supplements can cause bleeding in pg? My friend (a nurse) told me that some people react badly to the supplements & it can cause bleeding. Since I had a bleed a week after I started taking the supplements, I wondered if anyone else has been told this? (I have stopped taking the iron for now until I can check it out).

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Apr 2007
    Perth, Australia
    744

    No I have never hear of this and I'm a nurse also.
    There is a medical problem where if a person is having a bleed in thier bowel, their poo is black and tarry. If someone is on iron supps, thier poo can look blackish. It sometime look similar.