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.
A simple ferritin test can be performed by your doctor to determine if your ferritin levels are low. The test involves a simple blood draw. Normal serum ferritin levels are 12 to 150 nanograms per milliliter and 12 to 300 nanograms per milliliter for females and males respectively. These normal values may vary slightly depending on the laboratory used.