Question for Cat, re TIBC, was Re: stranger blood values - iron experts needed

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Hi Sol!!

no specifics, not really something I have spend a lot of time with,

but the B12 and ferritin forum on RTH has some interesting discussions

on it...

I just look at MCH and MCV etc for megaloblastic anemia etc, most of

the info I have comes from googling megaloblastic anemia / high MCV,

that kind of thing, but I don't usually consider TIBC's myself, the

Tsat% uses TIBC in it's calculation and suits my most common purpose

of looking for the presence iron overload - in combination with the

RBC and WBC can usually see trends like big RBC's etc which point to

other things than simple anemia or iron overload..

sorry, not much help to you!!!

Cat

> >

> > exactly -

> > In a nutshell, the full fasting ferritin panel is very volatile,

> that

> > is because bacteria and viruses thrive on iron rich blood.

> > Our clever bodies know this, and when a virus or bacteria threaten

> > (or inflammation, always good to get a CBC with a ferritin panel

> and

> > compare WBC's for imflammation) then the body stores serum iron

> away

> > into the liver, elevating ferritin and decreasing serum iron and

> > depending on where in that process the test happens the tsat can

> move

> > about too.

> >

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