What can I do about my Iron levels?

Question

I'm always anemic.I have Ulcerative colitis & so I bleed, but not all the time, so I don't understand why I get anemic even when my colitis isn't too bad. (Though my period is always early & heavy). I can't take ferrous sulphate because it makes me constipated exacerbating my colitis. I eat a balanced diet, including apricots, sprouts, spinach,& liver but my body doesn’t absorb the iron. I just had another course of Iron infusions, but I still feel anemic & I’m not due for a blood test until March 6 by which time I shall be even worse, then I’ll have to wait another 2weeks while the hospital sort out the paperwork etc & set up the appointments. They're so useless, I’m sure the treatments didn’t have any effect this time because they mucked up with my appointments-I had one infusion 15 December, the next was a month later, followed by 1 a week for 3 weeks thats 5. On previous occasions I've had 6 infusions-1 a week. How can I avoid this shambles &stop myself getting such low iron levels

Answer 1

Have you try another approach? Use acid and alkaline diet. I read the book on pH Miracle for Diabetes and it works. While many like me thought that diabetes is about sugar, drinking supergreens (an alkaline drink made from vegetable extract) help to keep the sugar level in the blood down.

The acid alkaline diet also helps my friend with hypo-thyroidism (excessive iodine) to control the problem.