My mother has lung cancer and is constantly having very low blood and always needs blood transfusions, I would like to know if there are foods she can eat that will build up her blood
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Hi Monica, a couple of good articles for you, http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/top-10-iron-rich-foods http://www.umm.edu/blood/aneiron.htm If you put some of the foods listed in an ingredients search on www.allrecipes.com you can probably come up with some really good recipes for her.
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Go to this FREE website. They have lots of great info on it. http://savoirvegan.wordpress.com
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Cream of wheat is a good one and easy to eat with good amount of Iron (when I was going through chemo could keep very little down but that worked) Apricot Nectar is another one that is good for building blood - it stimulates cell production Also look at iron pills - yes they cause constipation but they help
