Anemia And Ice Cubes - Hello Doctor
Anemia And Ice Cubes Hello Doctor . Anahad OConnor, newspaper columnist for The New York Times, recently wrote an article that links the habit of chewing ice cubes with anemia. . The researchers actually do not really understand the connection, but some of them suspect that compulsive ice consumption-called pagophagia eases inflammation in the mouth caused by a lack of iron levels in the body, she wrote. . From the experience of the doctors, patients who claim to have this habit did indeed show low levels of hemoglobin, after a blood test. This condition is called the pagophagia, which indicates a lack of iron levels in the blood. . Apparently, quite a lot of column readers who have such experience. A woman named Nancy left a message under the article. . It was an impulse for me, Nancy wrote. I chewed on ice until three of my teeth were damaged, and had to throw money to fix it. I was then diagnosed with severe anemia, started taking iron, and had to undergo an ablation procedure. From...