Iron 44mg/5mL (as sulfate 220mg/5mL); contains alcohol 5%. Nausea, abdominal discomfort and pain, constipation, diarrhea, masks occult bleeding, black stools, tooth discoloration (elixir).

The iron supplement ferrous sulfate is an iron salt with the chemical formula FeSO 4. Iron salts are one type of the mineral iron. People often use them as a supplement to treat iron deficiency.

IN recent years the drug industry has presented the practicing physician with an ever increasing array of iron preparations. Medical representatives, armed with excerpts from the medical literature, ...