EEOB 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Gastrointestinal Tract, Endothelium, Ellipse

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Where: spleen and liver we recycle them and make new things out of them. Not enough rbc or enough rbc doing their job. There is a range of anemia depending on what step messed up. Similarities in all the anemias issues with rbc. We see a decreased o2 carrying capacity in our blood (less rbc which carry o2: could be because we don"t have enough rbc, or rbc didn"t develop right so don"t do job right. Forms of anemia a hypo situation (not having enough rbc) Either decreased rbc or something wrong with the rbc we have. Not enough iron in diet (dietary deficiency of iron) Iron key to making rbc if we don"t have it, we can"t make them. An ingestion problem not getting enough iron in diet to ingest to help make rbc. Nan ingestion problem mouth it"s a problem not being able to absorb the vitamin b12.