Clinical studies on South Trinidadian children: (III) intramuscular iron in the treatment of hookworm anaemia

ABSTRACT

Results are presented to show that in the treatment of children with severe iron deficiency anaemia, associated with hookworm infection, intramuscular iron has proved so efficient that it is proposed to continue its use despite the present controversy about its ultimate effects. In the small groups of children investigated, it appeared that little benefit was derived from increasing the daily dose of iron from 50 to 100 or 200 mgms., or from adding vitamin B12 to the regime. It is suggested that a few grave cases, in whom haematinics were inadequate and simple blood transfusion dangerous, were saved by exchange transfusion.(AU)