Key points to take away:
1. Start with open-ended question to get a sense of their experience.
2. Then move to more specific questions:
- Changing pads overnight?
- Noticing clots greater than the size of a quarter?
- Experiencing a gushing sensation?
- Having accidents?
- Having multiple periods in a month?

Join us as Pediatric Hematologist, Angela Weyand explains nuances of evaluating for and treating Iron Deficiency. In this video, she guides us through what for many can be a thorny subject, the menstrual history.

This video is a part of our series with Angela all about Iron Deficiency Anemia! Check out the other videos in the playlist:

The Iron Panel
The problem with "normative" values
Taking a menstrual history
When to expand your work-up for iron deficiency anemia

Original interview by Shreya Trivedi MD and Nick Villano MD.
Video content and editing by Alice Kennedy MD.


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