Hemotomochrosis ranges?

[fetacheta]

My doctor told me that my iron is high.  The range is 50-175 and mine was 205.  I jsut want to know at what point does it become dangerous.  Also, could this be because of hemochromotosis?  I hardly ever eat meat and when i do i eat very small portions.  

[fetacheta]

Oh, thank you.  I have had no luck finding out what the ranges are supposed to be or what exactly is involved with that issue.  But my doctor doesnt think it seems to be a problem so i guess it alright.  Thank you for your help though!

[teenyturner]

My apologies, ferritin is different to iron.  In Australia the ferritin range is 50-150 so that's what I thought you meant because our iron level is only up to 25 as a normal value.

We must use different types of measurements but at the same time, isn't it the ferritin that is increased in haemachromatosis?

Anyway, I'm sorry if my answer was completely out of synch.  Good luck.

[fetacheta]

okay, i guess i thought that i read that  iron and ferratin were different?  And iw as just concerned because if anything we thought i was anemic because i hardley eat anything containing iron.  I go back to my GI dr tomorrow so i guess ill find out whats going on then.  Thank you for your reply!

[teenyturner]

I don't think there is a specific answer to your question.

If you have a gene test done for hemachromatosis and it's positive, I think they like your ferritin to be kept pretty low because the disorder is life long.  However if the ferritin is high because you have some inflammation somewhere, they don't worry about the level quite so much.  You just have to remember there are a number of reasons the level can be above normal including what time of the day they took your blood test.  Your level doesn't seem very high at all.

My ferritin was above 5000 for a long time before my doctor decided to try and bring it down.  After drug therapy and venesections it has come down to 900 and he seems quite happy that the level is below 1000.  Mine was not caused by hemachromatosis but from multiple blood transfusions because of bone marrow cancer so they didn't concern themselves much about the ferritin level as the cancer and treatment took priority.

Hope this helps.