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Iron Absorption

June 15, 2016

Some patients with Lyme disease report anemia with low total body iron status. The following substances can affect iron absorption:

Decrease Iron Absorption:

• medications that impair absorption
• avoiding vitamin C foods two hours before or after meat or seafood ingestion
• calcium
• eggs
• oxalates
• polyphenols
• phytates
• lactoferrin

Increase Iron Excretion

• IP-6

Increase Iron Absorption

• Vitamin C/ascorbic acid
• alcohol
• beta-carotene
• Additive iron products
• hydrochloric acid
• meat
• sugar
• nicotine products

References

www.irondisorders.org/diet