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Anemia means your blood struggles to carry enough oxygen, leaving you tired, pale, and short of breath.
means A condition where you lack enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin to carry adequate oxygen through your body, leaving you pale, tired, and short of breath.
from From Greek anaimia, stitched together from 'an-' (without) and 'haima' (blood) — literally 'bloodlessness.' The term was adopted into medical Latin and then English to describe not a total absence of blood, obviously, but a deficiency in it, and 'haima' is the same root that gives us hemoglobin, hemorrhage, and hematology — a whole family of words built on the Greek word for blood.
- top cause
- iron deficiency, often from diet or blood loss
- telltale sign
- pale skin, fatigue, cold hands, breathlessness
- sneaky culprit
- heavy periods quietly drain iron for years
- fix
- iron, B12, or folate usually reverse it