1. When drying your hair, don't squeeze it to get rid of water. Instead, wring it out over your shoulder like you were a towel. This is so it dries in vague curls, not in the creases where you squeezed them.
Regular blood donation can be done every 8 weeks. A person with severe iron overload may need to give blood as much as 8 times in a single month! The goal is to bring blood ferritin levels to an ideal range of 50-150ng/mL. Depending on the amount of iron overload at the time of diagnosis, reaching normal levels can require several phlebotomies. Serum ferritin drops about 30ng/mL with each full unit (500cc) of blood removed.
The serum ferritin level is the most effective way to diagnosis iron deficiency anemia. When the serum ferritin is less than 15 ng per mL (15 Î¼g per L), iron deficiency is virtually certain (Table 5 14â17). Iron deficiency is unlikely if the serum ferritin level is greater than 100 ng mL (100 Î¼g per L). Although ferritin levels between 15 and 100 ng per mL are moderately predictive of iron deficiency anemia, patients with levels in this range may have iron deficiency anemia, anemia of chronic disease, or both.