IRON REQUIREMENTS IN INFANCY. II. THE INFLUENCE OF IRON-FORTIFIED CEREALS DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE, ON THE RED BLOOD PICTURE OF CHILDREN AT ONE AND ONE HALF-3 YEARS OF AGE.

Abstract

Introduction Further an attempt has been made to evaluate the long term effect of iron therapy in anemic infants. The studies to be reported in this article are an extension of the longitudinal studies of iron requirements during the first year of life published recently [3]. We have reasons to presume that a normal infant receiving adequate dietary iron supply during the first year of life will run little risk of developing irondeficiency anemia during the following years. We have been interested in studying whether this is really true, and have therefore made a follow-up study of the 21 1 participants in the previous investigation. No attempts have been made to perform a more exact determination of the daily iron intake of the participants after the age of 1 year, as this appears t o be very difficult Literature