Once the ferric ammonium citrate in Ferosid is ingested, the exact chemistry and structure of the resulting mixed citrate and ferric phosphate compounds in the stomach and intestines is unknown. It has long been thought that the low pH of the stomach is important for delivering soluble iron into the intestinal tract, although the solubility of Ferosid over a broad range of pH might make that factor less critical. Ferosid is believed to use the conventionally described and highly regulated enterocytic pathway of iron absorption, in which ferric iron is enzymatically reduced to the ferrous state, absorbed primarily in the duodenum, and finally transported into plasma and made available for erythropoiesis.
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