5 ways in which your body points you regarding iron deficiency.

Iron deficiency is a state of body when it doesn’t have enough of mineral iron content. Iran is one of the most important mineral required by the body to produce haemoglobin. If human body doesn’t have enough haemoglobin, then tissues and muscles won’t get enough oxygen to able to be work efficiently. This will subsequently lead to anaemia. Although there are different types of anaemia but iron deficiency anaemia is the most common and prominent.

Iron deficiency can result in two symptoms that can affect the quality of your life severely. But there are certain cases too, in which people do not experience any symptom.

So here we are coming up with the most common and prominent five symptoms of iron deficiency.

• Unusual tiredness

Feeling tired all day long is one of the most common symptoms of iron deficiency. The fatigue is because your body lacks the air and it needs to make haemoglobin. With lack of haemoglobin, less oxygen reaches to your tissues and muscles, thus depriving them from energy. This will subsequently put heart to work harder to pump oxygen.

Although tiredness is often considered a normal part of busy and modern lifestyle these days. So it becomes difficult to diagnose the tiredness because of iron deficiency.

• Fatigue and shortness of breath

As mentioned earlier, haemoglobin enables your red blood cells to carry oxygen around your body. When haemoglobin levels are low in the body, then subsequently oxygen level will also go low. As a result, breathing rate will increase and your body will try to intake more oxygen through respiration.

So if one finds out breathing abnormal during daily lifestyle tasks such as walking, climbing stairs, working out then can blame iron deficiency.

• Damaged hair and dried skin

Damaged hair and dried skin may point towards the iron deficiency of your body. As mentioned earlier, iron deficiency lowers downs the level of haemoglobin in the blood. This will subsequently reduce the amount of oxygen available for hair growth.

When a skin in here deprived of oxygen, they generally becomes dry and weak. Hair loss may also point towards the iron deficiency in the body. Although it is completely normal for some hair to fall out during everyday washing and brushing. But if one is losing clumps and bunches of hair, it should be noticed.

• Swelling of tongue and mouth

Sometimes deficiency of iron or anaemia may include signs like swelling of tongue and inflammation of mouth. The tongue becomes swollen, inflamed, pale or strangely smooth.

Iron deficiency may also cause other symptoms like dry mouth burning, feeling inside your mouth, mouth ulcers, red cracks at the corner of your mouth opening.

• Brittle fingernails

Brittle fingernails are one of the least common iron deficiency symptoms. This condition is also called koilonychias. The first sign of brittle nails is, they chip and crack easily. During later stages of iron deficiency spoon shaped nails can occur where the middle part of the nail dips and the edges are raised. This giving round spoon like appearance.

Just because it is a rare side effect an occurs only in 15% of the population. It is generally ignored.

So it is advisable that if you are facing any of the above mentioned problems, then rush to your health expert. Just try to ensure that you are getting enough iron through your meals.