Does anyones young child take iron supplements?

[LoudThunder]

My six year son has recently been prescribed iron supplement syrup following some blood tests in relation to some feeding difficulties that he has.

His medicine is 140mg/5mls and he has to take 5mls twice a day, so a total of 280mg a day.

From what I’ve been reading this seems like a very high dose for his age. I’m almost 40 and on iron supplements too and he takes a higher daily dose than I do?!!

What are other people’s experiences with this?

I believe you'll find that mg is of an iron compound, and the elemental iron will be a lot less. You don't say which iron compound he is on (there are several) but for instance that dose would be about right for the age, for sodium feredetate (most common brand sytron).

My dd who is older takes the oral spray once a day - she was very pale with dark circles under her eyes and the inside of her lower lid wasn't pink. I also had noticed her sleeping a lot more and being a bit "spacy" but had put that down to hormones. She's looking a lot healthier after a month of it and much more focused on school work (still sleeps for England though)!

The brand isn’t Sytron, it’s called AadFer.
It’s ferrous Fumerate.

He’s got to take it for four months and then have a repeat blood test.

Here will be where your GP looked it up. So treatment dose would usually be 0.25ml/kg twice daily. 20kg would be a reasonable average weight for a 6 year old, so sounds about right. You might find this makes more sense at this time of night, as it's written for parents.