Benefícios e possíveis malefícios da suplementação com ferro na papoulação infantil

Abstract

This study it has as objective to improve knowledge and to improve practical the daily one in the Program of Health of the Family. One searched to use references from the year of 1987, obtained in virtual libraries and personal collection of Pediatrics. The texts had been submitted to the Exploratory, interpretive and selective reading. The present study it searchs a reflection on the conscience and the behavior of parents and caregivers, thus trying, to guide on the importance of the suplementation of iron in first infancy. The conclusive insist on understanding the happened problems of not the suplementation or the inadequate suplementation of iron.