Effect of Twice Weekly Versus Daily Iron Treatment in Turkish Children with Iron Deficiency Anemia

摘要: This study was designed to propose a more practical, effective, safer, inexpensive, and manageable alternative treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) for the developing countries. The involves 94 children between ages 5 months 6 years who had been seen in authors' hospital diagnosed as having anemia. Ninety-four with IDA were randomly divided into two groups: 48 comprised first group, which administered conventional treatment, 46 second intermittent involving administration 2 days week. Twenty-three whose age gender distribution compatible other groups included control group. Both reevaluated their initial hematologic parameters at end treatment. When both compared group after there no differences betwe...