Biodisponibilidade de ferro e a anemia ferropriva na infância revisão sistemática

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos, Solange Bonandi
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Liberali, Rafaela, Coutinho, Vanessa Fernandes, Assumpção, Claudio Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/62284
• topic: Deficiência de ferro; Anemia ferropriva; Vitamina A; Vitamina C; Iron deficiency; Iron-deficiency anemia; Vitamin A; And ascorbic acid

This article is a systematic review in which one employed national and international articles based on PubMed, SciELO and Bireme, whose main goal was to show the efficiency of iron-rich food and iron supplementation efficient usage by children. In selected field studies one could verify aspects positives for the participants’ health. From these participants had a recovery in their anemia condition and an increase in the concentration of hemoglobin. In 37,5% of the studies there was an improvement in the children’s performance, and in 75% there was a decrease in the anemia prevalence. Until the sixth month of life the breastfeeding totally supplies the iron need of children, after this period it is necessary to carry out a supplementation with iron-rich food in order to promote the children’s full development. Substituting the breastfeeding until the sixth month of life by cow milk or other food may endanger the child’s health