Patients who are being treated for folate deficiency require ...

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Patients who are being treated for folate deficiency require monitoring of:
 
  1. Complete blood count every 4 weeks
  2. Hematocrit and hemoglobin at 1 week and then at 8 weeks
  3. Reticulocyte count at 1 week
  4. Folate levels every 4 weeks until hemoglobin stabilizes

Question 2

Monitoring for a patient taking iron to treat iron deficiency anemia is:
 
  1. Hemoglobin, hematocrit, and ferritin 4 weeks after treatment is started
  2. Complete blood count every 4 weeks throughout treatment
  3. Annual complete blood count
  4. Reticulocyte count in 4 weeks

[ryhom]

Answer to Question 1

2

Answer to Question 2

1

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TYSM

[lcapri7]

Excellent