Advice for improving iron levels?

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Anybody got any top tips?

drink orange juice with your meal to help absorb the iron from your food. avoid tea and coffee as they hinder the absorbing.

Spatone from the chemist.

One sachet a day will boost it no end. (and much easier going on the bowels than iron tablets)

Also lots of green leafy veg and red meat.

(guess who's queen of being aneamic!)

Fortified breakfast cereal (so generally childrens cereal). Chekc the labels. Rice Krispiies is meant to supply iron = 15% of RDA but some go up to 25%.

spatone and floridex are natural alternatives to iron tablets too

Strong nettle tea.

thanks - thought there was something to do with OJ, so will try that. Cereals too - bleedin obvious isn't it, why didn't i think of that?

not sure about nettle tea (do they have to be fresh?!), is that a health food shop job? And the other supplements sound good, not fancying constipation to add to my list of woes.

Thanks all. Keep em coming if any more spring to mind

Yes, OJ with a meal with dark green veg. The vitamin C helps you to absorb the iron thats not from meat.

A friend of mine tried floridex and aside from costing a fortune she didn't think it helped at all. Just a tip, if your iron is low enough that you need to consider iron tablets insist on the slow release ones - they are much less likely cause constipation & mess up your digestion than the normal ones.

Ferrograd C tabs are quite good - they are iron and vit C combined

I buy loose nettle tea leaves from the local health food shop. Just brew it up as normal and drink throughout the day. It gets stronger as the day goes on.

Dried Apricots! I bought some chopped dried apricots from Tesco yesterday and just had them sprinkled over my cereal and they were yum. Something like 35% RDA in 100g.

pumpkin seeds

beef stew