Low iron while pregnant

[Anonymous]

I’m 16 weeks and have been losing tons of hair over the last few weeks. My TSH and full thyroid panel is completely normal as well as vitamin d and B12 but my ferritin came back at a 10.4 today which is very low. Obviously I most likely need iron supplements but can low ferritin really cause excessive hair loss? Planning on chatting with my endocrinologist tomorrow but curious if anyone else has dealt with this.

[Anonymous]

Yes

Try Floradix. It’s pretty gentle and don’t taste that bad.

[Anonymous]

Yes, make all meals in a cast iron pan and put iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods, like a spinach omelet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, make all meals in a cast iron pan and put iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods, like a spinach omelet.

Interesting. I use a cast iron since I used to be a whiny vegan and never bothered with prenatals and never had low iron through 2 complete pregnancies.

[Anonymous]

I had extremely low iron in college (ferritin of 1, not pregnant) and I absolutely had trouble with my hair falling out until I got my iron up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had extremely low iron in college (ferritin of 1, not pregnant) and I absolutely had trouble with my hair falling out until I got my iron up.

Thanks for letting me know!! Seems like this is definitely probably the reason. Everyone says your hair is so nice and healthy during pregnancy but 100% not the case for me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, make all meals in a cast iron pan and put iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods, like a spinach omelet.

Can you give me some examples? I don’t eat red meat and hate seafood so I’m definitely struggling! I do eat eggs every day with turkey bacon but obviously that’s not doing anything.

[Anonymous]

Yes, low iron can definitely cause hair loss. I take Vitron C.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, make all meals in a cast iron pan and put iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods, like a spinach omelet.

Can you give me some examples? I don’t eat red meat and hate seafood so I’m definitely struggling! I do eat eggs every day with turkey bacon but obviously that’s not doing anything.

Just take an iron supplement and call it a day!

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, make all meals in a cast iron pan and put iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods, like a spinach omelet.

Can you give me some examples? I don’t eat red meat and hate seafood so I’m definitely struggling! I do eat eggs every day with turkey bacon but obviously that’s not doing anything.

Literally just cook in a cast iron frying pan. If you add something acidic (e.g. tomato) more iron will dissolve into the food. Chase it down with vitamin C for better absorption. My cast iron sometimes leaves full out metalic streaks on my eggs. Spinach is a good veggie iron source.

[Anonymous]

Be aware that iron supplements can cause constipation. Squatty Potty helps immensely!

I never had low iron in pregnancy despite eating vegetarian/pescatarian (I normally eat meat but it turned my stomach when i was preg). I used Nature Made prenatals so I think that helped keep it up.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you're taking the prenatals with iron. SO many have no iron (because it can make pregnant women nauseous). I have a cast iron stomach and never had a problem with iron. I was told that my high energy levels were because I had such good iron levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes

Try Floradix. It’s pretty gentle and don’t taste that bad.

+1 to Floradix. I used that during 2 pregnancies to counteract pregnancy-induced anemia. It doesn’t cause the constipation issues so prevalent with other forms of iron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you're taking the prenatals with iron. SO many have no iron (because it can make pregnant women nauseous). I have a cast iron stomach and never had a problem with iron. I was told that my high energy levels were because I had such good iron levels.

Op here: I’ve been taking the Naturelo brand prenatals since TTC and they say they have iron but maybe not enough? Waiting for my endo to call and tell me his thoughts!

https://www.target.com/p/naturelo-prenatal-multivitamin-capsules-with-folate-90ct/-/A-79812386