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Originally Posted by bebop
Neil just my opinion that if the marrow is not making the red blood they just die off too soon to accumalate the iron. dad's dr never said why he didn't get overloaded but that is my thinking.
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I have only had sixteen units. I don't make red cells, and my ferritin is elevated.
Here is something from Wikipedia.
"Immune response
Ferritin concentrations increase drastically in the presence of an infection or cancer; this is necessary to counter the infective agent's attempt to bind iron from the host's tissue.[15] The inflammatory response may cause ferritin to migrate from the plasma to within cells, in order to deny iron to the infective agent.[15]
Stress response
The concentration of ferritin has been shown to increase in response to stresses such as anoxia;[16] this implies that it is an acute phase protein.[17]"