Feraheme Injection: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates

Name: Feraheme Injection: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Precautions and Alternates
Duration: 4 min 19 s
Description: Feraheme is a type of iron given by injection. In your body, iron becomes part of hemoglobin and myoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen through your blood to tissues and organs, and myoglobin helps your muscle cells store oxygen. Feraheme is an iron replacement product used to treat iron deficiency anemia (low red blood cells caused by a lack of iron in the body).

Feraheme Injection

Generic name	ferumoxytol
Drug class	Iron products
Forms	Injection (single use vials, 510 mg iron per 17 mL)

Feraheme is a type of iron given by injection. In your body, iron becomes part of hemoglobin and myoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen through your blood to tissues and organs, and myoglobin helps your muscle cells store oxygen. Feraheme is an iron replacement product used to treat iron deficiency anemia (low red blood cells caused by a lack of iron in the body).

General information

Follow the prescriber and the leaflet that comes with this medicine.