Need iron + multivitamin

[guest9933]

Hey guys I just had an iron transfusion in hospital got out today and they said my iron is low plus they said i'm malnourished and need some multivitamin

Just wondering what you take I was going to try and use the garden of life raw food as a supplement for the multivitamin but is it any good.

 

[mario]

I built myself up using complan. I noticed a difference in my energy levels within days
And as your mother will have told you.....Eat your greens"

 

[David]

Did they specify how you are malnourished? What are you low in?

 

[guest9933]

yeah I weifh 47kgs and my hemoglobin is like 80 where it should be like 140

 

[Feather]

I take a standard multivitamin every day plus an iron supplement with 325mg ferrous sulfate/65mg elemental iron. When I get particularly anemic, my doctor recommends that I take two iron pills. Did your doctor make any suggestions about what you need? He/she may have some clearer ideas about what exactly you need to be supplementing.

I've never tried Garden of Life, but I drink Ensure every day which definitely helps. Let me know what how the raw food works out if you try it!

 

[lookame]

I also needed a blood tansfusion, I got 2 pints of blood. My iron was at a 7 when I sould have been at a 14. Anyway I take one iron suppliment everyday with my meal. When my iron dips that is my doctors que to take a deeper look(generally I'm bleeding). I also take a One a Day as it's redily available.

 

[Jennifer]

I was just told to start taking two iron pills as well Feather. I also take prenatal vitamins (I'm not pregnant or trying to be at the moment) once a day because they contain the highest amount of nutrients.

 

[JohnathanO]

I have been on 3 iron pills a day to bring up my iron which the doc says is not extreme but below normal. The issue I have right now is an extremely low albumin level of 13 where it should be 35. This low level is causing waer retention and it sux becase I am taking water pills to relieve the pressure but as long as te albmin level is low the water can't be carried to my kidneys to be removed. I am trying to eat as much high protein as I can but it is not coming up at all.