Talk:Iron poisoning

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How much?
How much is "excess" what is the lethal dosage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.113.98.60 (talk) 22:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Toxicity
It says in the article" "Toxic effects start ... above 20-30 mg/kg". What kgs? Of a body weight? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.196.217 (talk) 07:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

The article doesn't make sense. First it says that "Ingestions of more than 50 mg/kg of elemental iron are associated with severe toxicity"

Then right after that it says that the standard pill of "325 mg has 65 mg/kg of elemental iron" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.194.71.101 (talk) 01:16, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

"Toxic dose" section has unclear and possibly misleading data.

"The amount of iron ingested may give a clue to potential toxicity. The therapeutic dose for iron deficiency anemia is 3–6 mg/kg/day." - Is this the quantity of iron or iron compounds?

"A 325-mg tablet of ferrous sulfate heptahydrate has 65 mg (20%) of elemental iron" and so on - is that percent out of the tablet's weight (it looks like that) or out of the recommended dose (I strongly doubt it, since a quoted value for the daily recommended dose is 18 mg of iron for adults and probably less for children)?

Also, the text is identical to the one in the cited source (is it good?, bad?). Maybe more sources should be used and the text should make clear which is what. Ferred (talk) 17:25, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Nonhuman animals
This article ignores canine and other veterinary iron toxicity; it should be re-written with a larger scope (or given a narrower name). Dr.queso =  talk 19:56, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

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