Abstract

The authors treated over four months 13 hypochromic, anemic children with the following methods: physical activity, 80 minutes a day, five days a week; outdoor activity till a maximum of 3 hours; increase of ingestion of vegetables; increase of appetite. Ingestion of iron did not increase significantly. Two subjects had pin worms and they received an anthelmintic; an other subject pendicectomized. In this group of three children the sideremia increased from 70,0 +/- 4,1 (SEM) to 109,0 +/- 7,3 mikro-g/100 ml; the HB from 8,2 +/1,5 to 27,0 +/- 2,1 . In the other ten children not treated with drugs the sideremia increased from 78,8 +/- 3,9 to 117,1 +/- 5,3 mikro-g/100 ml; the HB from 10,3 +/- 2,3 to 14,0 +/- 0,8 g/100 ml; the MCHC from 25,6 +/- 0,6 to 30,8+/- 1,4 . The authors suppose among various hypothesis that intestinal absorption of iron increases because elimination of stasis of nutrients in the small intestine. Verf.-Referat