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Iron absorption from chewable vitamins with iron versus iron tablets: implications for toxicity

J G Linakis1, P G Lacouture, A Woolf

  • 1Program in Clinical Pharmacology/Toxicology, Children's Hospital, Boston.

Pediatric Emergency Care
|December 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

Iron absorption from chewable multivitamins is faster and greater than from ferrous fumarate tablets. This suggests multivitamins could cause severe iron poisoning if overdosed, though this is rarely seen.

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