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Suggest Iron Supplement That Does Not Cause Vomiting During Pregnancy

My wife is pregnant, and she has been advised to take Livogen Z as for iron, which has folic acid as well. She is Alpha chain thalesemia minor Whenever she takes this tablet, she does excess vomiting, due to which whatever she eats, comes out, and nutrients are not retained. We discontinued this tablet for couple of days, she was fine, however nails of toes, started turning purple, due to less oxygen supply, so she again took this tablet, but again this cycle of excess vomiting started. kindly advise. Also suggest some alternate iron medicine.
Fri, 8 Aug 2014
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she should take iron rich food like - green leafy vegetables, jaggery, peanuts plus proteinaceous food . she can try other tablets like- Ferium-xt, Orofer-xt . or if these also not work for her then syp. Heam up or syp. dexorange . tell her to take medicine after food approx 1 hr and better if she can take it with lemon water, it will increase its absorption.
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Suggest Iron Supplement That Does Not Cause Vomiting During Pregnancy

she should take iron rich food like - green leafy vegetables, jaggery, peanuts plus proteinaceous food . she can try other tablets like- Ferium-xt, Orofer-xt . or if these also not work for her then syp. Heam up or syp. dexorange . tell her to take medicine after food approx 1 hr and better if she can take it with lemon water, it will increase its absorption.