[JAN] anaemia

Question 1

What is anaemia?

Answer 1

The condition of having lower than normal number of red blood cells or quantity of haemoglobin.

Question 2

Effects?

Answer 2

one feel tired, cold, dizzy, and irritable and short of breath, among other symptoms.

Question 3

reasons?

Answer 3

lack of iron, folic acid or vitamin B12.

Lack of millets , green and leafy vegetables, and dominance of packaged and processed foods

Question 4

Women face more iron deficiencies?

Answer 4

due to menstrual iron losses and the high iron demands of a growing foetus during pregnancies.