Pediatricians at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis are advising Wichitans to keep a better eye on how much milk their toddlers are drinking.
This comes after the doctors saw a surge in iron deficiency anemia in young children as a result of either too much calcium or too little iron in their diets, with several cases resulting in hospitalization.
Dr. Amy Seery, a pediatrician with Ascension since 2011, said that although anemia isn’t uncommon among children, the severity she and her colleagues have observed over the past few months is cause for concern…