Anemia Prescription Form

Instructions and help about Anemia Prescription Form

anemia is a condition where there's a decrease in the number of healthy red blood cells or rbcs in the body so iron deficiency anemia means anemia caused by a deficiency in iron iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia worldwide if we take a close look at our red blood cells we'll notice that they're loaded with millions of copies of the same exact protein called hemoglobin and hemoglobin binds to oxygen and turns our blood cells into little oxygen transporters and it basically allows us to move oxygen to all the tissues in our body if we take an even closer look at those hemoglobin proteins we find that they're made of four heme molecules which have right in the middle iron this iron molecule is what binds to oxygen so each hemoglobin molecule can bind four molecules of oxygen sign up for a free trial today and watch the full video on osmosis.org [Music] bye