Do the blood reports show that the hemoglobin levels are below normal ? Well, the doctor may recommend iron or vitamin supplements depending on what has sourced the levels to lower to get them back to normal. But these tablets might help only for short period of time. Once stop taking the supplements, the hemoglobin levels may drop again unless integrate a few nutritional changes to maintain the hemoglobin levels by naturally. Read about Natural ways to improve hemoglobin levels
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Tips to enhance the hemoglobin levels naturally:
Even though there are many reasons like bone marrow defects, cancer, blood loss, kidney problems and use of certain drugs that can cause nutritional deficiency of iron, folic acid, low levels of hemoglobin, vitamin B12 and vitamin C is most common reason for low haemoglobin levels. Deficiency of each of these can be corrected by adding different foods to diet. Let us have look at them individually. Here are some of the tips to enhance the haemoglobin count naturally.
Low hemoglobin count due to deficiency of iron:
deficiency of Iron causes anaemia can be easily corrected by incorporating iron rich sources in the diet.
Leafy vegetables such as fenugreek leaves (methi), spinach (palak) and beans and lentils like masoor daal, chole, urad daal, moong daal, toor daal, rajma are also good sources of iron to remedy too.
sesame seeds and Asparagus (shatwar) (til) are other good sources of iron.
Grains such as millet (bajra), maize (makai), barley (jav), rice (chawal), and semolina (sooji), can also be included. You can also use combination of these sources to cook tasty iron rich recipes.
If not, crunch on dried fruits like almonds (badaam), dried peaches or raisins (manuka). If you are non veg eater, meat and fish are best sources of iron.
In case the hemoglobin counts are low in spite of consumption of these iron rich foods, the body may not be able to absorb the accessible iron properly. So, here are the some diet tips to increase iron amalgamation:
Add dried herbs to the diet, especially, coriander (dhania), chervil (chevil), dried parsley (sukhe ajamoda), spearmint (pudina), basil (tulsi), bay leaf (tejpatta).
Another way to enhance an iron absorption is to reduce the intake of calcium rich foods like milk and cheese because they block the absorption of iron. Should not drink too much of tea, coffee, and alcohol.
Avoid eating foods that contains gluten like pastas and wheat products, which are linked to anaemia.
Sometimes, foods like parsley (ajwain) that are rich in oxalic acid might also impede with absorption of iron. Have them in very limited quantities.
Low hemoglobin counts due to deficiency of vitamin C:
Vitamin C helps body to absorb iron from foods. So without sufficient vitamin C, iron from food sources would not get absorbed efficiently.
Low haemoglobin count due to deficiency of Vitamin C can be corrected by eating fruits like guava, kiwi, papaya, oranges, strawberries and grapefruit. Add all these fruits together to make delicious fruit salad or make the mixed fruit juice.
We can also obtain vitamin C from vegetables including capsicum (Simla mirch), broccoli, cabbage, tomatoes and spinach.
Low hemoglobin counts due to deficiency of folic acid:
If the haemoglobin count is low because the body is not producing sufficient red blood cells, then could be deficient in folic acid, a B complex vitamin that is required to make red blood cells.
Sources of folic acid include lentils, dried beans, peas, Brussels sprouts banana, pineapple, corn, beets, and peanuts.
Note: If person is having more of Vitamin C sources then they will have to improve the intake of folic acid as well because vitamin C causes excretion of folic acid from the body.
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