Iron therapy in nutritional anaemia of infants
University of Edinburgh, 1934
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Hochschulschrift
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1. In the group of children studied, who were between the ages of three months and two years, the haemoglobin level ranged from 25 per cent. to 83 per cent. and the predominant figure or mode was 70 per cent. of the 'normal' adult value. The term anaemia is applied to children with haemoglobin below 60 per cent. 2. Treatment with iron salts for 2 m 3 months of a group of twenty children with haemoglobin levels of 72 per cent. or less resulted in raising the mode to 78 per cent. Iron therapy therefore, raised the haemoglobin level not only in children suffering from definite anaemia but also in those with a haemoglobin level only slightly below the average. 3. The number of children with haemoglobin levels of 72 per cent. or less was 39 7and 77 per cent. of these responded to treatment with iron salts. 4. The full beneficial action of iron salts in nutritional anaemia of infants was only produced after six weeks to three months. 5, Infections interrupt or delay the cure of nutritional anaemia with iron salts. 6. The following doses of iron were effective:- COMPOUND || DAILY DOSE of COMPOUND || DAILY DOSE of IRON Ferr.et Amm.Cit. || grs. 4.5-9 || 58-116 mgms. Ferrous Chloride || grs. 1.5 || 43 mgms. Ferrous Ammon. Sulphate. || grs. 3 || 28 mgms. 7. The average latent period with ferrous ammonium sulphate was one week while with ferrous chloride and Iron and ammonium citrate it was 2 - 4 weeks. 8. These facts show that ferrous salts are more effective than Iron and ammonium citrate in the treatment of nutritional anaemia. 9. In cases treated successfully with iron salts, from 2.5 to 11 per cent. of the iron given was utilised for the production of haemoglobin. 10. In a group of 33 children with haemoglobin levels of 70 per cent. or less, iron therapy caused: - (a) an increase in the rate of gain in weight, in 53 per cent, and (b) a rise in the haemoglobin level in 81 Per cent. of this group of cases. 11. Since iron therapy raised the weight as well as the haemoglobin in so many cases, it appears that in the majority of children studied, there was a deficiency in the iron supply sufficient to retard growth. 12. It appears that the true 'normal' haemoglobin for infants between three months and two years is certainly above 70 per cent and is probably nearer 80 per cent.
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Iron therapy in nutritional anaemia of infants
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hood, R. G. |
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Veröffentlichung: | University of Edinburgh, 1934 |
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