Some Therapeutic Implications of Ferrous Sulfate-Ascorbic Acid Mixtures
Open Access
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 21 (4) , 284-288
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/21.4.284
Abstract
Ascorbic acid has been shown to potentiate the absorption of ferrous sulfate in aqueous solutions, in standard tablet form, and in a plastic matrix. The potentiation increases with increasing doses of ascorbic acid up to 500 mg and holds with doses of iron up no 120 mg. The use of iron prepartions containing ascorbic acid may permit the use of less frequent doses in the therapy of iron-deficiency anemia and may refill iron stores better than oral iron salts without ascorbic acid.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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