A doctor diagnosed a patient with iron deficiency and gave him tablets containing iron .but the tablets were not hard and did not look like an iron at all what do you think the tablet contain

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Ans: the iron tablet would have been made from some iron salts as our body can't digest the iron metal as a whole the doctor gives us iron salt in iron tablets.

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These tablets contain ferrous sulphate,ferrous fumerate and Ferrous Citrate which can broken down in the process of digestion and helps in the forming of blood

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