NEUROLOGY
SURGERY
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When the nurse is educating the patient and family about a healthy diet for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, what should be included?
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Factors include the rapidity with which the anemia has developed, the duration of the anemia, the metabolic requirements of the patient, other concurrent disorders or disabilities, and complications or concomitant features of the condition that produced the anemia.
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Correcting or controlling the cause of the anemia.
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Bleeding from ulcers, gastritis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), or gastrointestinal (GI) tumors
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Dietary teaching sessions should be individual. ized, involve family members, and include cultural aspects related to food preferences and food prepa-ration. Additional amounts of iron, up to 2 mg daily, must be absorbed by women of childbearing age to replace that lost during menstruation.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Food. The richest sources of heme iron in the diet include lean meat and seafood [19]. Dietary sources of nonheme iron include nuts, beans, vegetables, and fortified grain products.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are two main dietary strategies to treat iron-deficiency anemia-increasing the intake of foods which are naturally rich in iron and ensuring a high bioavailability of iron (by providing enhancers of iron absorption within a meal and decreasing the intake of iron inhibitors) [12].
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