Question
Patient Age: Female, 60 years old, with kidney dysfunction and current anemia, receiving erythropoietin injections. What iron supplement should the patient take?
Answer
Hello, for patients with chronic kidney dysfunction, anemia is caused by renal anemia due to kidney disease. Therefore, correcting anemia can choose to inject erythropoietin or take oral blood-building medication. Recommendation: Your hemoglobin level is 81, which falls under moderate anemia. Simply taking a blood-building medicine may not be sufficient to correct the anemia, and you may need to receive erythropoietin injections to treat the anemia. It is recommended that you check your glomerular filtration rate. If it reaches the criteria for kidney replacement therapy, then you should opt for substitution therapy, as the underlying cause of anemia is the kidney disease.