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Nutritional Advice for Thal Minors

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sofear:
Nomad, your product contains 400 mcg of folic acid. How would you get a product with around 1-2 mg of folic acid or more as l-methylfolate? I haven't found anything close to that and I bet it would be extremely expensive.

Nomad:
The product I do use costs ca 50€ and contains 120 capsules so it lasts almost 4 months.
The 400mcg are 200% of the RDA and very good absorbable so there is no need for a higher dose...
Save your money.  :wink

catchR:
Hi Andy,

Typically, all Thal Minor have a haemoglobin on slightly lower side and doctors immediately prescribe a iron supplementation. I am not sure if this is correct way to deal with lower hb.

Can you please recommend the tests that can establish iron deficiency in thal minor and what are the ways to improve Hb if the cause isn't iron levels?

thanks!

Andy Battaglia:
A full iron panel should be done. This includes serum ferritin, serum iron and TIBC or TSAT%. By looking at the results of these tests and also the results of a complete blood count (CBC), especially the RBC, which will be low if iron deficiency is present, but normally is a bit high for thal minors, you can get a pretty good idea of whether or not a thal minor has iron deficiency, as well. In my experience looking at blood reports of thal minors, ferritin is often low in minors and they do not have iron deficiency. I would say no minor should ever be prescribed iron based on a serum ferritin test, alone.

Danny.H:
I want to share this link here also
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/08880018.2013.771388
I also want to share my experience with supplements.
I started to take lot of supplements since I read this post however my body's chemistry was all alterated  at that point . So everything that I took actually didn't helped me it was in September last year after going through surgery for gallbladder removal (it was no longer functional full of calculus ) that t I started my journey with my naturopathic doctor that actually directed me in a better  protocol with suplemmets. At this point I went back two times to talk about my symptoms and read my blood exams to actually target the problem and solve it. That has been helped me .just take supplements from the nature isle is not a good way to start it can be harmful for some of us. It was for me . But knowing what we really need is the better wag to do it . I'm aware that not all doctors are able or willing to read chemistry on our blood exams but once we find this awesome doctors is a good idea to share here with the community.

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