Abstract

B. Aabbassi* and A. Benali

ABSTRACT

Iron deficiency is the most widespread nutritional deficiency in the world. The iron deficiency syndrome without anemia interests us first of all by the risk of wandering diagnosis because of its mainly psychic manifestations but also by its association with many psychiatric disorders of the child and the adolescent. We illustrate through two clinical cases that the issue of martial deficiency is major in infanto-juvenile clinic and deserves more attention from practitioners regarding the frequent dosing of ferritinemia and martial substitution in our young patients. The benefits of this non-binding prescription would be manifold (reduction of the adverse effects of psychotropic drugs, reduction of the use of psychiatric hospitalization, reduction of public health costs).