What is the use for iron in the human blood?

Answer 1

Yes. Iron deficiency is extremely common and causes a host of health issues. Excellent link regarding what iron does in the blood, causes of deficiency, signs of deficiency, etc.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/nutrition_for_everyone/iron_deficiency/index.htm

Answer 2

Iron helps your body make new Red blood cells, these carry the oxygen throughout the body...therefore,

iron indirectly helps oxygenate your cells and organs. A lack of it is called "Anemia" and that means you need more red blood cells, which can be made if you take in more iron. A lack of iron or lack of red blood cells makes you feel fatigued, tired, worn out.

Answer 3

Iron is contained in blood and helps hemoglobin carry red blood cells around. Not having enough is a disease, and should be corrected by talking to your doctor, symptoms are light headedness among other things

Answer 4

Human iron metabolism is the set of chemical reactions maintaining human homeostasis of iron. Iron is an essential element for most life on Earth, including human beings. The control of this necessary but potentially toxic substance is an important part of many aspects of human health and disease. Hematologists have been especially interested in the system of iron metabolism because iron is essential to red blood cells. Most of the human body's iron is contained in red blood cells' hemoglobin, and iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia.

Understanding this system is also important for understanding diseases of iron overload, like hemochromatosis.

Recent discoveries in the field have shed new light on how humans control the level of iron in their bodies and created new understanding of the mechanisms of several diseases.

Answer 5

Iron is used by the body to form haemoglobin in the red blood cells. These cells (because of their chemical composition) absorb oxygen from the air in the lungs for distribution to the body, pick up carbon dioxide from the cells, and transport the carbon dioxide to the lungs to be excreted.Too much iron can cause many problems such as

• chronic fatigue.
• joint pain.
• abdominal pain.
• liver disease (cirrhosis, liver cancer)
• Diabetes mellitus.
• irregular heart rhythm.
• heart attack or heart failure.
• skin color changes (bronze, ashen-gray green)

Answer 6

The protein transferrin binds with and transports iron in the blood.

Answer 7

the function of iron is to help RBCs (red blood cells) deliver oxygen around the body. It prevents anaemia, a symptom of which is tiredness.

Answer 8

The major work done by iron in our human body is it helps for the oxygen transport throughout the body.

Answer 9

bad news, your aneamic?

you may go pale, for a while, but if you get some iron supplement it will go away after a while, but it takes some time.