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 ferritin test is often ordered as part of a panel of tests that examine the levels of body iron and the effects of abnormalities in iron storage.It may be ordered together with an iron level, a total iron binding capacity test, or blood cell counts. Medically Reviewed by a Doctor on 8/12/2015. ferritin test is a laboratory blood test that measures the amount of ferritin in a person's blood stream. Ferritin is the major iron storage protein in the body, so the ferritin test is ordered as an indirect way to measure the iron stores in the body.