Iron deficiency anemia

Anemia is a very common phenomenon. Many people around us have symptoms of anemia, especially in women. There are many types of anemia, the most common one is iron deficiency anemia. Some people with iron deficiency anemia pay attention to iron supplementation and often drink oral liquids, but the effect is not very good. At this time, everyone might as well learn about some dietary therapy methods.

The most important thing for people with anemia is to pay attention to their daily diet. Taking in some nutrients from their daily diet can effectively relieve the symptoms of anemia. Today we will introduce to you some foods that have a good therapeutic effect on iron deficiency anemia. Everyone should master more dietary supplements.

Anemia (also known as blood deficiency, English: anemia) refers to a common clinical symptom in which the volume of red blood cells in human peripheral blood is low and below the lower limit of the normal range. Since the measurement of red blood cell volume is complicated, hemoglobin (Hb) concentration is often used instead in clinical practice. People with anemia often feel tired, depressed, and irritable. Other symptoms include dizziness, fainting, apathy, and a gradual decline in the ability to concentrate. Anemia has different classifications based on different clinical characteristics. Treatment is mainly symptomatic and causal

Before making a recipe, we must first understand which foods are the best for replenishing iron and blood. Meat includes red meat, such as pork, beef, duck blood, pig blood, and pig liver. There are even more vegetarian dishes. The ones richest in iron are sesame, black fungus, purple rice, red dates, red peanuts, red beans, and spinach. Fruits include pears, pomegranates, and cherries. In addition, stewing eggs into sweet dishes is also very effective in replenishing blood.

Pork, beef, duck blood, pig blood, pig liver

Sesame, black fungus, purple rice, red dates, red skin peanuts, red beans, spinach, pears, pomegranates, cherries

Methods/Steps

Brown Sugar Longan Purple Rice Porridge

Soak the purple rice one night in advance, peel and wash the longan, cook it with the purple rice and glutinous rice into a sticky purple rice porridge, and finally add brown sugar for seasoning

Black Fungus Salad

After the black fungus is soaked, wash it, blanch it in boiling water for one or two minutes, then add sesame oil, light soy sauce, vinegar, and a little sugar to season it.

Fried pork liver

Cut the pork liver into slices about 1cm thick, then put it in a bowl, add a little cooking wine, dark soy sauce, and light soy sauce, mix well, and finally add a spoonful of dry starch and marinate for ten minutes. Heat the pan with cold oil, put the pork liver in and stir-fry until cooked through and then serve.

Lean Meatballs

Chop the lean meat into fine pieces, add a little flour to make a batter, add a small spoonful of salt, boil water in a pot, put the batter into the boiling water little by little, then cook until it floats, then season.

Milk Steamed Egg

Beat two eggs, add a box of milk and a tablespoon of sugar, beat well, and steam for 10 minutes.

Red Date Soup with Eggs

Put water in a pot, add ten red dates and a few slices of ginger and cook for ten minutes, then add eggs and cook until done, finally add brown sugar to taste

Black sesame steamed buns

Fry the black sesame seeds, grind them into powder and mix them into flour, then steam them into black sesame buns.

Blood-replenishing steamed bread

Corn flour, bean flour, red date powder and brown sugar are mixed into dough, and then made into small steamed bread and steamed for consumption.

Steamed Egg with Red Bean Milk

After grinding the red beans into pulp, use the red bean milk to steam the eggs, and finally season with brown sugar

Steamed Egg with Spinach Noodles

Beat two eggs with a small bowl of warm water, add a little salt, add blanched spinach, and finally steam them.

Different clinical symptoms of anemia

1. Aplastic anemia

Aplastic anemia is anemia caused by decreased or insufficient (disordered) bone marrow hematopoietic function. It is related to contact with certain harmful substances and taking certain drugs, such as benzene, arsenic, iodine amines, chloramphenicol and radiation. Some organic diseases such as tuberculosis, liver and kidney diseases, leukemia, etc., can often be complicated by aplastic anemia.

Symptoms: In addition to the general symptoms of anemia, patients with this type of anemia often have subcutaneous or mucosal bleeding, as well as chills and fever. Prevention and treatment: The treatment of aplastic anemia is generally based on Chinese herbal medicine and testosterone, and cortical hormones and blood transfusions can also be used. If the therapeutic effect is not good, you can use other drugs such as nandrolone phenylpropionate, lithium carbonate, cobalt oxide, etc. to stimulate hematopoietic function, which has certain effects on some patients. If it is still ineffective, consider splenectomy and continue conservative treatment after surgery. To prevent aplastic anemia, you should undergo regular physical examinations, seek medical treatment as soon as possible if there are any changes in your condition, do not abuse anti-inflammatory drugs, and promptly treat chronic diseases such as liver and kidney disease, tuberculosis, etc.

2. Iron deficiency anemia

Iron deficiency anemia refers to a type of microcytic hypochromic anemia caused by insufficient iron storage in the body, which affects hemoglobin synthesis. It is the most common type of anemia throughout the world, including in my country. Iron is an important trace element for hematopoiesis, and dietary iron deficiency is the main cause of anemia. In addition, hookworm infection, gastrointestinal malabsorption, bleeding from gastric and duodenal ulcers, hemorrhoidal bleeding, menorrhagia in women, and functional uterine bleeding in adolescence can all cause iron deficiency anemia.

Symptoms: Similar to those of nutritional anemia, and can be identified by testing trace elements in the hair.

3. Physiological anemia

Anemia caused by blood dilution due to the increase in normal human blood volume is called physiological anemia. Physiological anemia is most common during pregnancy. This is because during pregnancy, the mother's blood volume will increase by about 35% compared to normal in order to supply the needs of the fetus, of which the increase in plasma is greater than the increase in red blood cells, with plasma increasing by about 1000 ml and red blood cells increasing by about 500 ml, resulting in blood dilution.

Symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breath, inattention and abdominal distension, etc. In severe cases, heart failure may occur. Pregnant women with anemia are also prone to a condition called pregnancy-induced hypertension, and may also experience prolonged labor and postpartum hemorrhage during childbirth.

Patients with iron deficiency anemia should eat more foods with high protein content and supplement folic acid and vitamin B12 in time. Pork liver, lean meat, fungus and many other foods have a good blood-replenishing effect. Don't take some medicines blindly. In normal times, some dietary therapy methods are better than some medicines. Everyone should understand some dietary therapy methods that can treat anemia.