Spatone
“Iron is an essential mineral for carrying oxygen around your body and maintaining good health”
100% natural liquid iron supplement
Your gentle daily iron provider – ideal for everyone (over the age of two) including pregnant and post-natal women.
Iron is needed to make haemoglobin, the red pigment of blood.
The human adult body contains approximately 4g iron which is found in many proteins, but about 2/3 exists as haemoglobin. Contained within the red blood cells, the haemoglobin transports oxygen around the body from the lungs to the tissues via the bloodstream. The remainder is stored in the liver, spleen, bone-marrow and muscles where it is present as myoglobin which acts as an oxygen reservoir within the muscle fibres.
Initial low iron problems include tiredness, fatigue and general lack of stamina. Later if unchecked, problems include breathlessness, giddiness, headaches, dim vision, insomnia, loss of appetite, indigestion, restless legs and tingling in fingers and toes. Potentially progressing further over time to fast pulse rate and heart murmurs. All these conditions are associated with decreased oxygen supplies to tissues and organs. In young children iron insufficiency can also lead to depressed growth and impaired mental performance.
Globally, iron insuffiency contributes greatly to the general unhealthy condition and substandard performance of many millions of people