Step by Step

 

1. Self Check

2. Tentative diagnosis

3. Indication for Therapy

4. Therapy

5. Securing Diagnostics

6. Prevention

 

 

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If you get well due to iron dispensations, the diagnosis of a former iron deficiency syndrome IDS is corroborated.

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5th Step: Securing Diagnostics

 

Where a suspicion of an iron deficiency syndrome has previously existed and the symptoms have disappeared due to iron dispensation, the former tentative diagnosis is now retrospectively corroborated.

 

Whoever feels healthy or considerably better now, knows that the former ferritin value was not sufficient. At the same time, she also knows at which ferritin value she feels healthy or at least clearly better.

 

In thus becomes clear that the rated ferritin range lies where there are no iron deficiency symptoms and where the value is not unnecessarily high, either. Within a range which is not dangerous for the patient, and which does not only bestow “an even better” health upon her while simultaneously (and mainly) serving the business volume of the attending physician.

 

In this sense, the important phase of a new teamwork between the patient and the physician now begins:

 

· She provides the physician with her mental state

 

· The physician provides the diagnostic findings (laboratory values)

 

· Considering the correlations, it is possible to plan the maintenance therapy - in the awareness of the individual rated range.

 

What, if the treatment didn‘t help?

 

In this case (approx. 20%) the patient suffered from iron deficiency, but it was not really the chief pathogenic cause. Now, the physician must conduct further evaluations in order to find the cause of the symptoms. The subsequent treatment depends on the situation (second-line therapy).

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