Product Description

Slow Fe Slow Release Iron is a high-potency, once-a-day iron supplement that is gentle to your system. Slow Fe contains ferrous sulfate, the ingredient most recommended by doctors. Easy-to-use dosage provides the high dose of iron your body needs in one slow-releasing tablet. Tablets non-USP (disintegration, content uniformity).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #696 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: Slow Fe
• Released on: 2005-04-14
• Ingredients: Ferrous Sulfate USP, Silicified Microcrystalline Cellulose, Dibasic Calcium Phosphate, Hypromellose, Carbomer Homopolymer, Ascorbic Acid (Preservative), Magnesium Stearate, Tribasic Calcium Phosphate, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Polyethylene Glycol, Talc, FD&C Red 40, Titanium Dioxide, FD&C Yellow 6, FD&C Blue 1
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

Features

• One box containing 90 slow release iron tablets
• Unique controlled delivery system delivers high-potency iron in just one tablet per day
• Contains ferrous sulfate, the ingredient most recommended by doctors
• Clinically shown to reduce the side effects (constipation and abdominal discomfort) common to iron use
• Made in Great Britain

Customer Reviews

Fabulous product, HORRID packaging
This is the only iron product that many people--including me--can tolerate. It is substantially more expensive than many other iron preparations, but I don't mind paying extra to avoid the awful side effects associated with those. (AMAZON'S PRICE, however, was better than my local Wal-Mart or CVS.)

I DO MIND VERY MUCH that the manufacturer ignores customer reviews that talk about the terribly inconvenient packaging. Why should loyal customers who are willing to pay more for the product be subjected to trying to wrest these tablets from the packaging? Perhaps people with small children or mentally incompetent people in their households prefer such packaging, but why can't a plastic bottle be made available to the rest of us?

Thanks, Amazon, for friendly pricing. Boo-Hiss, Novartis, for your ongoing disregard of your customers' preferences.

Jayni Mosher.

Be careful if you're diabetic
These are decent iron tablets but be careful if you're diabetic. My wife took these and for a while she was getting unexplained peaks in her blood sugar overnight. When she stopped taking the supplement, the peaks also stopped. Turns out that lactose is one of the top ingredients.

This is a very good product.
I had a hemoglobin level of 8. A rather dangerous low level of iron. I ordered the tablets. I had been taking a different brand. But, after, starting on these, I felt much better. I have not had my levels drawn again. But, they have made a difference in how I feel.