{"id":5558,"date":"2015-06-25T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eestiarst.dbweb.ee\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T10:16:15","slug":"how-to-diagnose-and-prevent-iron-deficiency-in-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/how-to-diagnose-and-prevent-iron-deficiency-in-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"How to diagnose and prevent iron deficiency in infants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) in infants aged 9\u201312 months was 23% and 9% had also anaemia in Estonia. ID increases the risk for impaired cognitive and motor development in infants. Therefore, it is important to prevent ID and its development into anaemia. Primary prevention of ID consists in provision of recommendations for infant feeding (breastfeeding or infant formula feeding up to 4\u20136 months, supplementary food at 6 months, meat at 7 months, cow\u2019s milk after 1 year). Secondary prevention consists in screening infants at the age of 9\u201312 months: measurement of serum ferritin and\u00a0haemoglobin concentration and mean red cell volume (MCV) and concentration of serum soluble transferrin receptors (sTfR).<br \/>\nThe best cut-off values for diagnosing ID and the reference values (5th and 95th centiles) for ferritin are &lt; 10.9 \u03bcg\/L (4\u201355), for MCV &lt; 71 fl (68\u201380), for sTfR &gt; 2.4 mg\/L (1.5\u20132.7) in the IDeA\u00ae and 7.4 mg\/L (4.1\u20137.8) Tina-quant\u00ae method and for haemoglobin &lt; 107 g\/L (101\u2013128) in infants aged 9\u201312 months. For diagnosis of ID, haemoglobin test had lower sensitivity compared to other tests. Therefore, measurement of only haemoglobin is not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) in infants aged 9\u201312 months was 23% and 9% had also anaemia in Estonia. ID increases the risk for impaired cognitive and motor development in infants. Therefore, it is important to prevent ID and its development into anaemia. Primary prevention of ID consists in provision of recommendations for infant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-review","authors-heli-grunberg-en","authors-neve-vendt-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eestiarst.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}