Transfer patients if intensive care facilities or deferoxamine is not available locally. Safe keeping of all medications, not just iron pills, from young children is important. All medicines should be kept out of reach of children. Patients in stage 2 may appear well but still have the potential of cardiovascular collapse. Redistribution of iron in tissues is the reason that the level is low.
Toxicity is still possible.
Treat the patient, not the numbers. The lethal potential of severe intoxication without treatment of deferoxamine far outweighs the risk to the fetus. Conservative management of patients with moderately elevated serum iron levels. Acute iron poisoning. Medicine is a constantly changing science and not all therapies are clearly established.