medical question

Jim Macklin wrote:
eat red meat

Or cook in old-fashioned cast iron.

Margy


"Emily" wrote in message
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| Dave S wrote:
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|
| Whatever the factors involved, flying while anemic is
not a good idea.
| You don't want to find out that you have the wrong
combination of
| factors by passing out at 5000 feet.
|
| Are you going to be asymptomatic then magically pass out
at 5k feet?
| Hardly. And again, anemia is a matter of degrees. Normal
hemoglobin
| levels have a LOW normal value in the ballpark of 13-14
grams/dl. There
| is a lower acceptable low value in women as opposed to
men.
|
| Why do you waste your time? g
| I can say, as a woman with a level that is generally
around 11-12g/dl, I
| don't magically pass out at 5000 feet. I don't even
magically pass out
| around 10,000 feet. I can say that I prefer not to fly
along at night
| without oxygen above around 6000 feet, but like they say,
the first
| thing to go is vision....which comes back very rapidly at
lower
| altitudes. Daytime...I've done 11,000 with symptoms, and
again,
| wouldn't do it alone and without oxygen, but no passing
out.
|
| So.. how about YOU stick to what you know.. flying
sims.. leave the real
| flying to the real pilots.. and leave the medical stuff
to the folks who
| deal with it for a living?
|
| Good luck with that.