Anemia's Not Because You're Female
Feb. 12th, 2011 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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rosefox.
Why yes, if someone had taken my anemia seriously, I might have less intestinal and nerve damage because my celiac disease might actually have been discovered.
Money shot (emphases are in original):
"They found a whopping eighty-six percent of these women had a gastrointestinal disease that was likely causing their IDA [iron-deficiency anemia]. Therefore, menses likely had nothing to do with their IDA, and the assumption that menses made them pathological actually obstructed a correct diagnosis.
The majority of the women in that study were bleeding internally, and no one had figured it out until then because they had periods."
rosefox.Why yes, if someone had taken my anemia seriously, I might have less intestinal and nerve damage because my celiac disease might actually have been discovered.
Money shot (emphases are in original):
"They found a whopping eighty-six percent of these women had a gastrointestinal disease that was likely causing their IDA [iron-deficiency anemia]. Therefore, menses likely had nothing to do with their IDA, and the assumption that menses made them pathological actually obstructed a correct diagnosis.
The majority of the women in that study were bleeding internally, and no one had figured it out until then because they had periods."