Health Tips - Iron Deficiency is Blood Loss

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Another cause of iron deficiency is blood loss. In this case you lose the nutrient when you lose blood, and this accounts for the shortage. You may also become deficient if regardless of how much of the nutrient you ingest, some disease or disorder interferes with you body’s ability to absorb or utilize the nutrient. This is usually the case with vitamin B₁₂ deficiency. Now let’s take a closer look at nutritional anemia.