How do you increase the amount of iron you have in your body?

Question

i need to know

Answer 1

vitamin supplements and by eating food that contain iron.

Answer 2

Tanyae is correct, take an iron supplement if you need to. Also make sure you are taking vitamin C that allows your body to absorb the iron into the blood. Also, eat foods high in iron.

Answer 3

You can just take iron tablets. Find them in the vit/mineral section of your supermarket or drugstore. You can even cook food in an iron pan and get some iron on a residual basis. Get a blood test, via your medical doctor, and find out what your iron count is and how much you might need to build it up to be sure

Answer 4

Take a multivitamin with iron. Iron can lead to some constipation, so eat some fruit too. Eat spinich, raisins. It takes 120 days to make a new red blood cell.

Answer 5

eat liver.. take an iron supplement you need to get your levels checked by your doctor b/c too much iron is toxic.. but there is some over the counter iron or take a multi vitamin

Answer 6

You can prepare your food in cast iron skillets. Eat foods that contain high amounts of iron. Cereal does. Iron supplments as well. just be careful with iron as it can make u constipated.

Answer 7

Sources of iron: prenatal vitamins (you can get them over the counter, ask the pharmacist); spinach, beets, kale, beef, iron-fortified foods. I'd go with the prenatal vitamins. My Gyno Dr told me to get some when I was having some anemia issues.

Answer 8

Eat food which is rich in Iron content like apples..

Answer 9

if your iron levels are low, maybe take some vitamins. But listen, it is better to have low iron levels than high. My iron levels are low as well, but my doctor requested that I not take vitamins.

Answer 10

You can take iron supplements (take with vitamin C to aid in absorption.)

Cook food with a cast iron skillet.

Best is to eat foods rich in iron: soybeans, lentils, spinach, sesame seeds, kidney beans.