DEAR DR. ROACH:
Recently, I was rejected from donating plasma (not blood) because my iron that day was 57 mcmol/L, and the maximum allowable was 54 mcmol/L. I was rescheduled to get retested in a few days. The technician said to eat beans and similar foods to lower my iron levels.
I checked my own records and didn’t find any results that fell below the cutoff. My red blood cell count was 5.15; my wh…