I myself did not understand from the first time what it was about. It turns out that some doctors recommend that their patients increase their blood ferritin up to weight figures. Well, that is, if a person's weight 70 kilograms, then he is advised to raise ferritin to 70 nanograms per milliliter.
Ferritin is a protein that stores iron. If there is a lot of iron in the body, then ferritin is also high. With iron deficiency anemia, hemoglobin decreases, and ferritin.
But this is not always the case. Ferritin is referred to as acute phase indicators. We have already analyzed C-reactive protein and ESR, which are also acute-phase. That is, with severe inflammation, something happens to them. So ferritin also rises with inflammation.
It can be an infection, cancer, rheumatologic disease, or even just obesity. Ferritin will go up, but that's not good.
Most of the iron in our body is stored in the liver. If the liver is damaged by hepatitis and some kind of medication, then the iron will fall out of it into the blood, and the level of ferritin will rise. This increase in ferritin is also not beneficial to health.
Americans believe that normal blood ferritin levels are somewhere between 30 before 200 nanograms per milliliter. Our norms are lower, and in some countries the upper limit has been raised to 400.
If a person ate iron, then ferritin goes off scale 300 nanograms per milliliter.
With tumors, ferritin can fly up to 50000 nanograms per milliliter.
If your ferritin level drops to 12 nanograms per milliliter or less, this person is almost certainly out of iron stores.
In some cases, doctors are wary of allowing a decrease in ferritin. In seriously ill elderly people, it is sometimes considered the lower limit of the norm 50 nanograms per milliliter. With such anemia, the heart or head immediately refuses.
When ferritin is raised to a strong person with iron deficiency, then it is raised to normalization. Remember the norm? It's higher 30 nanograms per milliliter. I.e 31 nanograms per milliliter is already the norm.
And sometimes a person with iron deficiency is supposed to raise only hemoglobin, and ferritin should be forgotten. This is necessary in cases where, for example, there are regular bleeding from the stomach and intestines.
If iron stores were large, then such bleeding might not be noticed. Therefore, it is useful for patients with incomprehensible bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract to have normal hemoglobin, but low ferritin. The person will live with ferritin below normal.
And a similar situation in people with telangiectasias in the intestines. Telangiectasias are the very spider veins. They can burst and blood will flow from them.
And now, in people with telangiectasias in the intestines and repeated bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, hemoglobin will fall, and ferritin will decrease. Such people cannot be cured. The intestines cannot be completely replaced. Therefore, they stupidly raise their ferritin to high values so that they can lose blood with a clear conscience. The opposite is true.
And there are also anemias from a chronic disease. There may not be enough iron, and ferritin grows by itself due to inflammation. What to do with such? How do you know if there is enough iron? Such people stupidly raise ferritin to 100 nanograms per milliliter. Just to be sure.
Confused? And that's what I wanted. There are no universal rules about weight numbers. Ferritin can range from 10 before 50000 nanograms per milliliter. It doesn't smell like weight. Each case has its own recommendations.
