Talk:Iron deficiency anemia

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[edit] What

what does "seeing bright colours" mean? im a person with iron deficiency anaemia and im wondering if its what im thinking it is. 80.178.179.90 18:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging is a bad idea

I really don't think merging this with iron deficiency is appropriate; even though iron deficiency anaemia can result from iron deficiency, it is still a clinically discrete diagnosis. --Rhombus 18:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merging is a good idea

On the other hand, "iron deficiency anemia" and "iron deficiency" are so tightly interlinked. Besides the BMJ paper talking about iron supplementation for fatigue, I'm not aware (perhaps someone could clarify) of iron deficiency without anemia as being a clinically important entity. Andrew73 18:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that one is a subset of the other and can be included on the same page, as long as the

topics "iron deficiency" and "iron deficiency anamia" are included. Snowman 11:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Is there any difference between "Iron deficiency anemia" and "Iron deficiency (medicine)"? No, I don't believe so. Merge--metta, The Sunborn 04:34, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Don't merge

I don't believe they should be merged. While directly related, iron deficiency anemia is a condition while iron deficiency is the cause. That does not mean they are the same. Iron deficiency can also be linked to other conditions (mouth ulcers being one of them, and the reason I found the page in the first place). --Oticon6 7:09, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

  • I oppose the merge. I agree with the comments by Oticon6. Nephron  T|C 23:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


  • I oppose the merge for the reasons above. Also, the nutritional info on the iron deficiency page is a reasonable and helpful for that page but would be a bit out of place on the iron deficiency anemia page--it would be misleading to suggest that frank anaemia can be easily corrected by eating a lot of tofu. since this discussion has been inactive for a few months now, I'm removing the merge tags--others can feel free to re-open this conversation. Joewright 15:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I think that it has caused confusion with two pages (a page on Fe def and another on Fe def anaemia) because edits have been tidied up from editors who are confused about the difference between the two. I can see the benefits of both "merge" or "no-merge", but I guess it would be generally less confusing if the pages were merged, for people who are not trained in haematology or iron metabolism. Snowman 00:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I've put cross-referencing sentences at the top of each page to direct interested readers to the other. I do think that these two pages have a different tone and that merging them properly would create a quite long and somewhat muddled article--ie the danger is reducing confusion of topic at the cost of increasing confusion of content. Perhaps these cross-ref sentences can address some of the issue of confusion of topic? Unfortunately I don't have time in the next weeks to give the merge a try, so unless someone else is gung-ho to try it, my personal inclination is towards this lazier and I hope actually better solution.Joewright 06:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colonoscopy

doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00908.x - men with IDA don't need colonoscopy if their Hb >10g/dL and low-normal ferritin. JFW | T@lk 16:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I think this wording of this statement should be changed to "men with IDA anemia don't need colonoscopy if their Hb >10g/dL and low-normal ferritin". Also note in the studies methods that "We excluded patients with overt or occult gastrointestinal bleeding, marked change in bowel habits, lower abdominal pain, history of colon cancer, first-degree relative with colon cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis syndrome, hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome, and inflammatory bowel disease." The men in this study with ferritin over 50 probably did not have iron deficiency. Badgettrg 23:43, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Hypochromic" versus "Iron deficiency"

Can someone with relevant knowledge make the distinction (within the articles) between Hypochromic anemia and Iron deficiency anemia? -- Shunpiker 15:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't have relevant knowledge but it looks like iron-deficiency anaemia refers to the anaemia caused by lack of iron, and that one could be caused by a few other things (as the page mentions). Fdskjs (talk) 15:47, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Information

I have restored at least most of the information-deleting edits by a recent anonymous editor. I hope that the rests of you will take a careful look at the changes and fix whatever's still broken.

I am so irritated by this editor's wholesale deletion of nearly all symptomatic, diagnostic, and treatment information under the guise that it's a "doctor's" (presumably "physician" is intended) legal privilege to diagnose medical conditions, that I just wanted to climb up on my soapbox and say that this is an encyclopedia. We are supposed to provide information.

In my field, ignorance kills people. Please do not delete accurate, sourced information. Physicians do not have -- or want -- a monopoly on medical information. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)