Iron Injection 20MG/ML Suppliers & Bulk Manufacturers

Available Forms: Injection

Available Strengths: 20MG/ML

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Category: Nutraceuticals

Injection contains elemental iron. It is a replacement product used in chronic kidney disease patients to treat iron deficiency anemia. Iron is essential to form hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells which carry oxygen to the body tissues and organs. In iron deficiency anemia, there is not sufficient iron in the body leads to a lack of healthy red blood cells. It is given to treat iron deficiency when you cannot take iron by mouth, as the iron tablets make you feel ill or it have not worked.

Product Description:

Intravenous iron at 20 mg of elemental iron per millilitre is iron sucrose: iron(III) hydroxide cores stabilised in a sucrose shell. After injection the complex is taken up by macrophages, which release the iron gradually to transferrin for use in making haemoglobin. It is used when oral iron cannot be used — because of intolerance, poor absorption, need for rapid repletion — and especially in chronic kidney disease, where it is standard with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.

It is given by slow intravenous injection or infusion in repeated doses of up to about 200 mg, so full repletion usually needs several visits. Serious hypersensitivity is rare with modern IV iron but can occur, so it is given only where resuscitation facilities are available, with observation for at least thirty minutes afterwards. Hypotension, taste disturbance and injection-site reactions are recognised. Iron status is checked before repeat courses to avoid overload.

Sourcing notes. Iron sucrose is a non-biological complex drug: its properties depend on the manufacturing process, and copies are not automatically equivalent to the reference product. Regulators in the US and Europe require physicochemical and sometimes clinical comparability data rather than simple bioequivalence. Buyers should ask what comparability evidence supports a given source.