Anemia: causes and prevention

Anemia — a condition in which the blood insufficient amount of hemoglobin. No red blood cells! And of hemoglobin. Please note the difference.

  • Hemoglobin is a transport! This is a special tank for transportation of oxygen. The tank is attached to the erythrocyte –red blood cell.

  • The erythrocyte is a cell-trucker who delivers oxygen for your body along with the blood.





Loaded with goods, of course, in China. He is in the light, there's a lot of very cheap and sell precious oxygen. This, of course, no honey, but also a tricky thing. Best-selling an item that is always in demand. And here's a workaholic-truckers carrying hemoglobin to all the cells.

Imagine it's impossible, believe me. In the body – billions of cells. Each needs oxygen. Deliveries are made several times per minute. 5-10 minutes do not feed the cell died. It's all serious.

The frequency of the heart beats around 70 per minute. That is 70 times per minute every erythrocyte drove up to the lungs and back.

Unloaded in a cage oxygen, the hemoglobin is loaded "waste" – carbon dioxide. Back to the lungs carbonic acid is disengaged, and with the breath disappears. The red cell is loaded with oxygen again...

For another cycle. Another important rhythm of our body. Inhale – exhale.

Now more about the fleet.

Given the unrealistic load, red blood cell lives is very long – 120 days, in the North and less 90 days and then die. There is good news – constantly produces new red blood cells. Young erythrocytes that have not received their driving license are known as reticulocytes. Every 3-4 months the fleet of red blood cells is updated. Production plants are located in the spleen (in left side) and bone marrow (at the center of some bones).

Iron is such a piece, without which there is no hemoglobin. And circuits needs to be sharpened a certain way.

Now, as to why we all came together – the problems with logistics. Anemia is when oxygen transport is something wrong. And the cage lacked power. This can occur acutely and suddenly – for example, trauma and severe bleeding. Cars suddenly became much less than it was, of course, took the oxygen not all and not in that quantity. Sometimes it is fatal...But most often this process is lengthy, slow-paced and dull.

Causes differ. And here, it is important to realize that anemia is a signal. It is rarely a separate disease. This is usually the result.

Everything in medicine is simple really.

Stage 1. Food

Do the spare parts for the machines and all the stimulants of production. At this stage, problems can arise because you have not eaten what we have.

Stage 2. Absorption

Everything we ate, but suffer from stomach and that is necessary, not learned.

Stage 3. Production

Something happened with factories and update of our high-speed fleet. For example, the radiation is detrimental to bystrorastvorimami cell, not just sperm. This stage I have identified as the most serious. And the reasons for its violation is also legkomyslennyj. Here is required qualified medical assistance and again the same thoughtful thorough preparations.

Stage 4. The loss of blood. In particular, iron. Permanent or momentary.

By this stage, I notice all neglected. Imagine you have every month on a plate lost, or from 10 thundered. Ware will be missed, especially at important events.

Do not get tired to repeat: to have something to cure, it is necessary to understand why this "something" emerged. To localize the fault. Otherwise, you can treated for years to no avail. If a woman has heavy menstruation or bleeding hemorrhoids, and it is "reasonable food" is a vegetarian, she will develop iron-deficiency anemia, to the fortuneteller do not go. If the man went through chemotherapy, and anemia occurred, it is useless to overfeed iron, the multiplication of cells just oppressed and we need other methods.

If you lose a lot – have a lot to fill.

Not just once, but constantly.

If you do not learn – search for the optimal combination in the food.

In practice, stages one and four are the most problematic.

Let us examine more the first stage. I deliberately avoid numbers and norms, because for me the main thing is that you get the point. And regulations written on a piece of paper – easy to find. Not in numbers, health, and understanding how it works.





To "all was well", we need to eat iron, folic acid and vitamin B12. Usually food it's all there.

A lot of the debate is now about vegetarianism and iron deficiency what is iron deficiency anemia (IDA).

The essence of what the iron can be in bioforma. The so-called heme iron. Actually, this is the erythrocyte, not yours. And, for example, chicken, or pork. To learn it is easiest, he's already "ready to eat". This form is contained in meat.

For vegetarians.

Also iron can be in inorganic form: two - or trivalent. Trivalent iron is almost not absorbed from the intestine into the blood. This is important. Divalent absorbed, but as beautiful as bioforma.

How can I improve iron absorption? And is there a risk of anemia in vegetarians?

Loves to check everything Americans write the following: if you do everything right, the risk is minimal.

Remember the useful rule: the vitamin C helps the absorption of iron; and calcium and tannins (tea, coffee) in the way.

Simply put, between taking calcium supplements and calcium-rich food products, eaten with the aim to raise the iron should be at least 3 hours. So heme iron is found in meat, non-heme iron in plant foods, which, by default, contain a lot of vitamin C.

 

Practical nutrition tips to prevent and correction of anemia

1. Drugs of iron absorbed is much worse than from food fortified with iron, and are poorly tolerated. Therefore, always start the correction from your diet.

2. Recommended products for vegetarians: legumes, eggs, temnostoma greens, potatoes with skin, broccoli, tomato juice, nuts, apricots, sesame, Chia, dark chocolate, oatmeal (on water), kinea, whole grain bread, plums, spirulina, figs. Spinach contains lots of iron, but also oxalates that prevent absorption.

3. Meat, seafood

Desirable combination with: citrus, kiwi, bell peppers, berries and other foods rich in vitamin C. the Undesirable combination of: dairy products, tea and coffee.

Correctly to begin treatment of iron deficiency anemia with the enrichment of food with iron. But if it's another type of anemia, we go the other way. For example, people with diseased kidneys may also develop anemia, as there is produced by erythropoietin – substance that stimulates the reproduction of red blood cells – erythrocytes. Iron will not help. But if the hemoglobin in IDA is very low, for example, after severe bleeding also it makes sense to start immediately with the preparations.

Women vegetarians often suffer from anemia, and the body gets used to this condition, adjusts.

In the same way as high altitude dwellers resistant to the small oxygen content in the air. The main reference should be the health. Dizziness, fainting, pallor, palpitations, flies before the eyes, intolerance of physical activity – these are signs hinting at the need for more active treatment and receive iron-containing preparations with ferrous iron (better absorbed). In the instructions to the drug is usually indicate the degree of valence.

 



Headache — check the liver!

Interesting facts about cells

 

Well, I can pass by Ayurvedic respiratory recipe for all kinds of anemia. This isSurya breathing through the right nostril, which stimulates the hematopoietic function of the liver. Press your finger to the left nostril and breathe for 5 minutes just right. To take a long time every day in the morning.

You certainly noticed that we are talking mostly about iron deficiency anemia. First, it's 90% of the cases, it becomes the basis of lifestyle – diet, negligence to one's own small sores. To cope with it relatively easily. published

 

 



Source: lifestylemedicine.ru/anemiya_1/

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