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With that in mind we have to approach iron supplementation with caution. My feeling is that if your child turns out to be one of 8-13% that is deficient in iron, it is worth giving iron supplements. I doubt that it will help much with his ADHD, but it should help with his general health. This advice applies to your non-ADHD children, also.

How should you test iron deficiency? The hemoglobin and hematocrit counts that come as part of standard complete blood count (CBC) are good for diagnosing anemia. They do not really give you accurate information about body’s iron status. The best test for iron status is serum ferritin test, which measures how much iron is stored in your body. It will be low if you are deficient and high if you are overloaded.

If you find your child has an iron deficiency problem, there are several approaches to treat it. Probably safest is by giving him more iron-containing foods. You can serve him red meat several times a week. Liver is an excellent source, if you can get him to eat it. You can enhance dietary absorption by supplementing with vitamin A (about 10,000 IU) and vitamin C (about 500mg) with meals.

The most likely reason that your child is deficient is because he is a poor eater; so, dietary intervention may not be practical. A second and far inferior source of iron is through supplements. The primary difficulty of iron supplements is that they do not get into body. Fortifying foods with iron in general does not work. Many foods bind iron and, as a result, iron is excreted rather than absorbed. The best form of supplemental iron is Ferrochel. Ferrochel is an amino acid chelated iron, which is highly bio-available and is not affected by foods that bind iron.

Most iron supplements have a ten percent absorption rate. That means if you take 10 mg of supplement, your body absorbs 1 mg. Ferrochel is different. Ferrochel has a 75% absorption rate. That means 1.5 mg of Ferrochel provides more iron to your body than 10 mg of other supplements.

That is an interesting fact, but it is not why I am recommending it. The more important property of Ferrochel is that since it is already amino acid bound, it does not become free iron in body. That means it does not have dangers and side effects of other iron supplements. The FDA has given Ferrochel designation of GRAS, (generally regarded as safe). No other iron supplement has this designation.

The take home message is that iron deficiency may be cause of hyperactivity in some children. It is worth your while to have your child tested. If for some reason you suspect your child is iron deficient, best approach is to increase your child’s iron intake through his diet. If that doesn’t work and you need to use supplements, best supplemental iron is Ferrochel.

Anthony Kane, MD

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