A REVIEW ON IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA

Safia Mengal, Rahman Gul*, Abdullah Khan, Ghulam Farooq Baloch, Kashmala Khan and Muhammad Zaman Khethran and Dawood Khan

ABSTRACT

Anaemia is a clinical condition in which body does not have sufficient health red blood corpuscles or hemoglobin level in the blood to meet the body’s physiological requirements. Comparatively female are exposed to be at high risk as compared to children due to physiological resigns. Anaemia one of the widespread cause of iron deficiency anaemia at worldwide. In literature paper multiple determinants of iron deficiency anemia has acknowledged as well as environmental and inherited factors. There are numbers of factors that lack of poor socio-economic status, suitable diet and elevated parity of women that access to poor health hereditary etc. Among women of reproductive age group iron deficiency anemia characteristically is one of the imperative public health dilemmas in developing countries. This literature paper will primarily focus on extent of crisis, causes, solutions and role of iron studies in the diagnosis of iron deficiency anaemia. There are several factors that might expect anemia which in turn leads to different unfavorable outcome.

Keywords: Iron deficiency, anemia, CBC, Fortification, Nutrients, Vitamins, IDA.