6 symptoms caused by the lack of iron

If you are pale and you are oftenly confronting head aches, it's possible that you are suffering from a lack of this important mineral, essential to your body's oxygenation.

Iron is a vital mineral for producing hemoglobin. This is a protein which helps blood cells transport the oxygen easier through the entire body. This is why, the lack of iron shouldn't be neglected.

One of the most often symptoms which we usually neglect is the lack of energy and a weak focusing. But most of the people are so used to this condition, that they don't pay attention to it anymore. The experts warn that it's a symptom of lack of iron.

Find below some of the most important symptoms regarding the absence of iron:

1. An abundent menstruation

According to specialists quoted by Huffington Post, women who tend to lose more blood during menstruation, can't regenerate the needed quantity, followed by next month when the same process is happening. The experts recommend to take a simple test. Check out your absorbent and which is the frequency at which you need to replace it. If it's less than two hours, your menstration is rich, all right. So, next step is to go to a gynecological office, to discuss about this abundence of losing blood. Also, it would be recommended to take iron suplements during menstruation and to have a lot of veggies full of iron. For example: spinach and wallnuts.

2. You are pale

It's a direct link between the lack of iron and a pale face, the experts say. The hemoglobine assures the red color in your cheeks, thus your skin will get a slight pink tone and a healthy aspect. When the level of iron is low and the production of hemoglobine is reduced, the skin will visibly be more pale. Check out the interior of your lips, the gums and the inside of your lower eyelid. If they're not red enough, it might be that you lack iron.

3. You have the feeling that you can't breathe enough air

No matter how deep you breathe, you feel it's still not enough. This thing happens when the level of oxygen is low inside the body, the specialists explain. If you noticed that you breath too much, after some activities which didn't get you tired before, then it's recommended to check out the level of iron in your body.

4. You suffer of restless feet syndrome

You feel tinglings and you always have to move your feet when you're in bed? Maybe you are confronting with the restless feet syndrome. According to specialists from John Hopkins Medicine, over 15% of people who are confronting with this syndrome also have a lack of iron. And as lower the level of iron is, as emphasized the symptoms will be.

5. You often have headaches

A body which suffers of lack of iron will direct the small quantity of oxygen toward the brain, before transporting it to other cells, the experts say. But even so, the oxygen might still not be enough, causing inflamations of brain arteries and implicitly headaches.

6. You're a vegan

According to nutritionists, the iron provided by meat is absorbed better than the iron taken from vegetal sources. But there's an easy trick which helps you combine correctly the aliments and provides enough amount of iron for your body, even if you decide to forbid yourself from eating meat. The veggies, cereals and vegetables are rich in iron and if you eat them along with aliments rich in Vitamin C (lemon, broccoli, wild berries, red pepper) you will assure a better absorbtion of iron.