ORLANDO, FLA. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — At its base, anemia occurs when your red blood cell count is low. But the condition gets a lot more complicated from there. If doctors think they have found anemia, they have to ask themselves: What’s the cause? What’s the size of the red blood cells? Is it genetic? But it could still take time to get a diagnosis as some anemias are sneaky and disguise themselves as other problems.
If you think you have anemia, you probably think eating more iron-rich foods would fix it, but that’s not always the case.
Jose Najera, MD, Board Certified Hematologist and Oncologist at Orlando Health says, “Either you’re not absorbing the iron, or you’re losing the iron because of a bleed, or you’re not absorbing B12. So sometimes there’s things that you cannot correct with lifestyle.”…