Diet For Thalasaemia Patients

1. Foods to avoid

Foods with a high content of Iron	Iron Content
Organ meat (liver, kidney, spleen)	5-14 mg/100g
Beef	2.2mg/100g
Chicken gizzard and liver	2-10mg/100mg
Ikan pusu (with head and entrails)	5.3mg/100g
Cockles (kerang)	13.2mg/100g
Hen eggs	2.4mg/each whole egg
Duck eggs	3.7mg/each whole egg
Dried prines/raisins, peanuts (without shell), other nuts	2.9mg/100g
Dried beans (red, green, black, chickpeas, dhal)	4-8mg/100g
Baked beans (in can)	1.9mg/100g
Dried seaweeds	21.7mg/100g
Dark green leafy vegetables - bayam, spinach, kailan, cangkok manis, kangkung, sweet potato shoots, ulam leaves, soya bean sprouts, bitter gourd, paku. midin, parsley	>3mg/100g

2. Foods allowed
Foods with moderate amount of iron

Chicken, pork	allow one small serving a day	(2 matchbox size)
Soya bean curd (towkwa, towhoo, hookee)	allow one serving only	(one piece)
Light colour vegetables (sawi, cabbage, long beans and other beans, ketola, lady's fingers)	1-2 servings a day	(1/2 cup)
Ikan pusu (head and entrails removed)
Onions	use moderately
Oats

Foods with small amount of iron

Rice and Noodles

Bread, biscuits

Starchy Root vegetables (carrot, yam, tapioca, pumpkin, bangkwang, lobak)

Fish (all varieties)

Fruits (all varieties except dried fruits)

Milk, cheese

Oils and fats