Talk:Iron deficiency anemia
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what does "seeing bright colours" mean? im a person with iron deficiency anaemia and im wondering if its what im thinking it is. 80.178.179.90 18:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Merging is a bad idea
I really don't think merging this with iron deficiency is appropriate; even though iron deficiency anaemia can result from iron deficiency, it is still a clinically discrete diagnosis. --Rhombus 18:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] merging is a good idea
- On the other hand, "iron deficiency anemia" and "iron deficiency" are so tightly interlinked. Besides the BMJ paper talking about iron supplementation for fatigue, I'm not aware (perhaps someone could clarify) of iron deficiency without anemia as being a clinically important entity. Andrew73 18:51, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
- I think that one is a subset of the other and can be included on the same page, as long as the
topics "iron deficiency" and "iron deficiency anamia" are included. Snowman 11:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Is there any difference between "Iron deficiency anemia" and "Iron deficiency (medicine)"? No, I don't believe so. Merge--metta, The Sunborn 04:34, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Don't merge
I don't believe they should be merged. While directly related, iron deficiency anemia is a condition while iron deficiency is the cause. That does not mean they are the same. Iron deficiency can also be linked to other conditions (mouth ulcers being one of them, and the reason I found the page in the first place). --Oticon6 7:09, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- I oppose the merge for the reasons above. Also, the nutritional info on the iron deficiency page is a reasonable and helpful for that page but would be a bit out of place on the iron deficiency anemia page--it would be misleading to suggest that frank anaemia can be easily corrected by eating a lot of tofu. since this discussion has been inactive for a few months now, I'm removing the merge tags--others can feel free to re-open this conversation. Joewright 15:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
I think that it has caused confusion with two pages (a page on Fe def and another on Fe def anaemia) because edits have been tidied up from editors who are confused about the difference between the two. I can see the benefits of both "merge" or "no-merge", but I guess it would be generally less confusing if the pages were merged, for people who are not trained in haematology or iron metabolism. Snowman 00:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I've put cross-referencing sentences at the top of each page to direct interested readers to the other. I do think that these two pages have a different tone and that merging them properly would create a quite long and somewhat muddled article--ie the danger is reducing confusion of topic at the cost of increasing confusion of content. Perhaps these cross-ref sentences can address some of the issue of confusion of topic? Unfortunately I don't have time in the next weeks to give the merge a try, so unless someone else is gung-ho to try it, my personal inclination is towards this lazier and I hope actually better solution.Joewright 06:23, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
