[Hank Kerchief]

"...it does not have iron in it, which I am allergic to..."

I am very curious about what this means. You cannot live without iron. Hemoglobin requires iron. Without it you would have no red blood cells, but then, you wouldn't them since you would be dead.

Hank

[ravingnutter]

I cannot take vitamins with iron or any other kind of iron supplements, they make me extremely ill. I do, however occasionally eat foods that contain iron, such as broccoli. Eaten in very small portions with other foods, they do not affect me the same way iron supplements do. If I eat too much at one sitting, I have severe stomach problems. My daughter has the same low tolerance for iron. When she was a baby, we had to make sure her formula contained no iron or she'd had severe projectile vomiting. We are both chronically anemic due to this, but it is just something we have to live with.