Ferrous gluconate is a type of iron. You normally get iron from the foods you eat. In your body, iron becomes a part of your hemoglobin (HEEM o glo bin) and myoglobin (MY o glo bin). Hemoglobin carries oxygen through your blood to tissues and organs. Myoglobin helps your muscle cells store oxygen. Ferrous gluconate is...
For anemia. Brand Name(s): Ferate, Fergon. Generic Name: Ferrous Gluconate.
Provides a summary of interactions with vitamins, herbs, and food
Ferrous sulfate is a type of iron. You normally get iron from the foods you eat. In the body, iron helps your blood carry oxygen to tissues and organs and helps your muscle cells store oxygen. Ferrous sulfate is used to treat iron deficiency. Ferrous sulfate may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication...
For anemia. Generic Name: Ferrous Sulfate.
For anemia. Brand Name(s): Slow-Fe. Generic Name: Ferrous Sulfate.
For anemia. Brand Name(s): Fer-in-Sol. Generic Name: Ferrous Sulfate.
For anemia. Brand Name(s): Feosol. Generic Name: Ferrous Sulfate.
Provides a summary of interactions with vitamins, herbs, and food
Discusses natural family planning or periodic abstinence as a form of birth control. Covers using one of six basic methods to either get pregnant or avoid getting pregnant. Covers how each method works and what could affect the method.
Fertility awareness is a type of natural family planning based on a woman's physical signs of ovulation, such as changes in cervical mucus consistency and basal (resting) body temperature. Keeping track of these symptoms may be helpful if a couple is trying to become pregnant or trying to avoid pregnancy. If a woman is...
Fertility drugs can be used to stimulate the ovaries to release eggs (ovulate). Or they may be used to help stimulate sperm production. Use of fertility drugs increases the risk that more than one egg will be produced and be fertilized by sperm, leading to a high-risk multiple pregnancy.
Guides you through the decision to have infertility testing. Talks about causes of infertility. Lists risks and benefits of infertility testing. Explains how you might use test results. Includes interactive tool to help you decide.
Guides you through the decision to have a procedure to fix a tubal problem or to have in vitro fertilization. Looks at chances of pregnancy and risks after each procedure. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
About once a month, an egg is released from one of a woman's two ovaries (ovulation). The egg then enters the nearby fallopian tube. During unprotected sexual intercourse, sperm that is ejaculated from the man's penis may reach the egg in the fallopian tube. Fertilization occurs if one of the sperm cells penetrates the...
Ferumoxytol is an iron replacement product that is used in adults used to treat iron deficiency anemia (IDA), which is low red blood cells caused by a lack of iron in the body. . Ferumoxytol is given to adults with IDA and chronic kidney disease, or to adults with IDA when iron taken by mouth is not effective...
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This medicine is given as an IV injection into a vein. Before medicine is mixed, it may be stored at room temperature - below 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). This medicine should be given by a trained health care provider. Use this medicine at the same time each day. Space doses evenly to keep a steady amount of medicine...
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Fesoterodine is used in adults to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of urinary frequency, urgency, and incontinence. Fesoterodine is also used to treat neurogenic detrusor overactivity in children at least 6 years old who weigh more than 55 pounds (25 kilograms). . Fesoterodine may also be used for purposes not...
For overactive bladder. Brand Name(s): Toviaz. Generic Name: Fesoterodine Fumarate.
Learn about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, including the effects, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the term for severe birth defects caused by alcohol use during pregnancy. Children who have FAS may have: Distinctive facial features, which include a small head, a flat face, narrow eye openings, a short upturned nose, a flattened groove between the nose and the upper lip (philtrum), and...
Fetal and pregnancy dates are not the same—when a woman is 24 weeks pregnant, her growing baby (fetus) is about 22 weeks old. This is because the start of the pregnancy is counted from the first day of her last menstrual period (LMP), but the embryo doesn't start growing until about 2 weeks later.
Fetal blood sampling (FBS) is the collecting of fetal blood directly from the umbilical cord or fetus. The fetal blood is tested for signs of anemia and other blood problems. FBS is also known as cordocentesis or percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling. FBS is usually used when a Doppler ultrasound and/or a series of...
