OOPs! I goofeth badly...Re:ferrous <blahblah>ate

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OOPS! I goofed badly! I had written Ferrous Gluconate. I meant to

write Ferrous Fumarate. !!!

At 9:25 PM -0400 8/9/01, Steve Goldstein wrote:

>Many say ferrous gluconate. Many drug chains sell it cheaply under

>their own house brand name (CVS has their osn 30 mg Fe

>time-release). Also, take a vitamin C with it to enhance the

>absorption. Do not take with calcium, though many say that it ix OK

>with calcium citrate (Citrical). For 150 mg in Rx form, Chromagen

>Forte seems to be the ferrous gluconate de jour with the docs. It

>has 150 mg of elemental Fe per dose.

Please change gluconate to fumarate.

At 6:44 PM -0700 8/9/01, Judie Hensel wrote:

>Steve,

>I take Vita4Life and it says for the iron:

>

>Iron (from iron fumerate)

>

>and further down it also says for ingredients:

>

>ferrous fumerate

>

>whats with all the different irons?

>this also is taken with calcium citrate.....it has all the vitamins you need

>in 12 capsules!

Judie,

I really do not know the answer to your question. But thanks for

jogging my memory. I am suffering from cramps and oil (many of you

of the other gender get your cramps with Auntie Flo--I get oil!).

Must'a twisted my mind.

My surmise is that the various forms of iron are not all absorbed

equally well, and some, apparently, cause gstric distress. So, the

cheapest form, Ferrous Sulfate, supposedly (I have no facts to back

this up, and I could be very wrong) is not absorbed all that well,

and may cause gastric distress in some folk. So, I had read on one

of these lists about Ferrous Gluconate, and I bought some when I saw

them in the drug store, because that form of iron was supposed to be

absorbed better than the sulfate. THEN, folks started writing about

how their docs recommended the Fumarate form of iron as presented in

the brand name Chromagen Forte. I looked it up on the web and found

that it contained 150 mg of elemental iron as Ferrous Fumarate with a

claim that it minimized gastric distress. Well, I found Ferrous

Fumarate at CVS in 150 mg tablets, time release, with 50 mg of

elemental iron in them. So, I decided to try them, even though the

iron-associated serum fractions in my blood work were OK for iron.

Thanks again for jogging my failing memory!

--Steve

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