8 Lifestyle and Diet Changes You Can Make to Deal with Anemia

Anemia is the condition of lack of blood in the body that can occur in people as a result of family history, improper diet, alcohol intake and ethnic background.

When you consult to your doctor, you will get an idea that why are you suffering from the disease and what symptoms determine occurrence of anemia in you. Here is the list of lifestyle and diet changes that can make you deal with anemia –

Get Treatment With Fluids

If you are suffering from sudden loss of blood due to anemia, the best thing to get swift treatment is intake of fluids, oxygen, blood transfusion and more important iron to help your body for generation of new RBCs.

On the other hand, if you are suffering from chronic blood loss, the problem can be handled easily by recognizing the cause of bleeding and stopping the source of the same.

Take Iron Supplements

The best way to overcome anemia is taking iron supplements; earlier than taking iron supplements, it is important to consult with the doctor. Excess iron intake seems harmful for people. Secondly you should be careful enough to keep iron pills out of the reach of children.

Vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea and nausea are the main symptoms that can be seen in children after they consume iron excessively. In such condition, don’t delay to get the medical help immediately.

Get Checked Your Menstrual Flow

It is important to get checked by the doctor whether you are having heavy menstrual flow. Too much bleeding can lead to anemia and doctors will prescribe you an oral contraceptive for reducing the flow every month.

Check Out For Side Effects

Earlier than taking any medication for treatment of anemia, you may require continuing iron supplements for about a year. Taking iron supplements is good idea to avoid occurrence of general side effect. Leading side effects are stomach pain, constipation, diarrhea and nausea. If you find any medication offers you side effect, you can simply change formulation for the same.

Be Aware About Drug Interactions

Check out whether you are facing drug interaction after taking medication for treatment of anemia. Well, you should tell your doctor if you are taking any other medication already so that he or she will decide whether drug interaction can happen in your case or not.

Maintain Your Diet

People who are aware enough to maintain their diet well for proper intake of vitamins and minerals seem to catch anemia hardly. If you are already suffering from the condition of lack of blood, you need nothing but to take care of including all the required dietary supplements. Talking to the physician about useful dietary supplements for you is good idea. Fenugreek, spinach, papaya, brinjal, mango and apple are good sources of iron.

Be Careful During Ageing

People who are entering in old age should be very careful for taking proper amount of iron in their diet as there are chances that they will catch a kind anemia easily known as pernicious anemia. This condition can be dangerous due to memory loss, depression and irritation.

Get Regular Checkup

Occurrence of anemia always give rise to condition like dizziness, weakness and vertigo so whenever you suffer from those conditions often, you should not delay at all to get yourself checked by the doctor. Lack of iron in the body can be fulfilled back after many efforts if condition of anemia is prolonged.

All the above mentioned points are good and effective for treatment of anemia. The all you need to do is keeping all these points on mind and getting the condition of blood loss resolved as soon as you can, after detection of the problem.

Rukmani Agrawal Jaiswal:
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