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[dom1213]

My grandma is 76 years old. She has a very high iron level her last count was over 700. She also has a low white blood cell count. She Is getting monthly blood transfusions for that. She also has a low platelet count.  She has small iron buildup in her liver and doctors are afraid that it might escalate to the point where they'd have to operate. But they can't because of her low white blood cell and platelet count.
She also needs her knees replaced and a tendon in her foot fixed but she can't because the doctors won't operate until her iron is down WBC count Is normal and platelet count is normal.

Are there any suggestion to wht she should do?
Or how she should go about daily life, because she's scared to eat much because she doesn't want to get worse.

[micklog]

high iron levels are common in transfusions and the only real way to treat is by donating or gving blood, those are very high levels..from wihr (what I have read), high iron can also translate to low wbc--bugs and virus's love high iron as its food for them
michael
tea (black) has tannin whcih is said to reduce iron levels but at those levels my guess is giving blood is the only way to get iron levels down

blessings
michael

[Dr Sharma]

Hi there. Thrombocytopenia or low platelets can be due to decreased production as in vit B12 or folic acid deficiency, leukemia or decreased thrombopoitin production by liver, sepsis, increased destruction as in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation, systemic lupus erythematosus. Medication induced like with H2blockers and proton pump inhibitors.
Low wbc count may indicate bone marrow failure due to infection, tumor, collagen vascular diseases like lupus erythematosus,  diseases of liver or spleen.
Hemochromatosis is abnormal excessive accumulation of iron in parenchymal  organs. Excess iron is hazardous because it produces free radical formation, which can lead to rapid formation of damaging oxygen  metabolites, such as the hydroxyl radical and the superoxide radical. These can produce DNA cleavage, impaired protein synthesis and impaired cell integrity and cell proliferation leading to cell injury and fibrosis.
The platelet and wbc levels need to be replenished to near normal levels and  iron reduction, phlebotomy etc are taken up for the hemochromatosis.  Surgery can be considered with these becoming normal. Take care.