Should be taken on an empty stomach: Best taken between meals. May be taken w/ meals to reduce GI discomfort.
Contraindications
Patients w/ Fe-shortage or Fe-absorption diseases, hemoglobinopathies, GI diseases. Patients w/ Parkinson's disease taking levodopa should take supplements containing pyridoxine.
Fe salts: Should not be given to patients receiving repeated blood transfusion or w/ anemias not produced by Fe deficiency. Do not co-administer w/ parenteral Fe. Pyridoxine: Severe peripheral neuropathies in long-term administration. Folic acid: Patients who may have folate-dependent tumors. Not a treatment of pernicious anemia & other megaloblastic anemias where vit B12 is deficient.
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