Acute iron poisoning occurs in children. When children overdose orally wrapped with colorful sugar-coated slices of solid iron or liquid iron made of syrup, about 1 hour can appear acute poisoning symptoms, epigastric discomfort, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and black stools, and even facial purple, lethargy or irritability, acute intestinal necrosis or perforation, the most serious can be a shock and lead to death. Thus, it is necessary to remind parents to pay attention to the need for children (children's food) iron, taking iron preparations, must be strictly controlled according to the doctor's instructions dose, do not indiscriminate, in order to prevent poisoning.
Chronic iron poisoning occurs more than 45 years old in the middle-aged (elderly food) people, male (male food) majority. As a result of long-term use of iron preparations or too much iron intake from food, so that the amount of iron in the body more than the normal 10 to 20 times, there may be chronic poisoning symptoms: liver, spleen has a large amount of iron deposits, which can be manifested as cirrhosis, osteoporosis, cartilage calcification (calcium food), the skin is brownish-black or gray, insulin secretion is reduced, leading to diabetes mellitus (diabetes mellitus food). For adolescents (juvenile food) can also make the development of reproductive organs affected. It has been reported that iron poisoning can also induce epilepsy (crohns).
The treatment of iron poisoning, the doctor should be symptomatic treatment, the patient should be treated according to medical advice. Prevention of iron poisoning, one is in the taking of ferrous sulfate and other iron agents for the treatment of anemia, be sure to prevent overdose, and prevent children from accidentally taking, it is best to take the new products of modern science and technology porphyrin iron supplements, not only the absorption rate is high, but also is not easy to produce side effects; the second is not long time will be acidic food stored in iron containers, and also can't be used in iron pots to cook hawthorn and other acidic foods, so as not to be in the acidic conditions of iron dissolved into the food in large quantities.