Liver Problems For 3 Year Old Posted: 10-12-04 18:58pm
My grandson has a sgot of 224,as a matter
of fact both test showed levels of over
200. He is anemic and stays constipated.
Mono test was negative,waiting for
epstein-barr results. Can anybody help me
to understand what is going on!
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dawnmb
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Arizona
Posted: 03-04-06 20:30pm
You might want to have him tested for
hemochromatosis, it is a genetic disease
and exhibits many of the same symptoms as
anemia, but is caused by iron overload in
the body and will usually give normal
range limits in tibc and iron tests - you
have to specifically request serum
ferritin tests and if those are also
elevated, then request the hemochromatosis
dna mutagen test. If he is given iron
pills/shots and actually has
hemochromatosis - it will cause
fibrosis/cirrosis of the liver and a host
of other problems. Many doctors are
unaware of this disease, but it is
actually very common 1 in 200 have the
disease - it is extremely high in those of
irish (1 in 3), french and german
ancestry.
