There is an excellent article on this in the Journal of Nurse Midwifery, I will have to ferret through some boxes to find it, just off the top of my head haemoglobin will neasure the amount of haemoglobin circulating in your blood and so the amount of iron and hence oxygen carried by your red blood cells, the ferritin levels will measure your iron stores necessary to make new red blood cells and can somewhat predict ones ability to reproduce your rbc'c after a haemorrhage: your recupperative capacity. Can't remember what the cut off levels are for ferritin.
marilyn ---- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Cookson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:02 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Haemoglobin and ferritin levels > Hi, > Needing some help to clarify the difference between haemoglobin levels and > ferritin levels. > > Have a local GP who switches between the two readings depending on which one > is lowest and suggests/insists on iron injections. > > Levels I've had quoted from some of the women are: > > Hb 107 > Ferritin 14 > > > another: Hb 109 > Ferritin 13 > > These two women are both 32 weeks. > > Just needing clarification and some evidence about the relevance of > both/either readings. Hb levels seem fine to me - a bit foxed by the > ferritin level - one woman had dropped from 120 early pregnancy to 14 now... > > Look forward to your fine input, > > Sue > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
