Hemochromatosis is a condition in which your body produce too much iron. Iron is very important to our body, but too much of it can be toxic to the body. Hemochromatosis is prevalent across the US, and it is the most serious types of excess iron it is a genetic disorder. There are two types of hemochromatosis, the primary is due to inherited genetic disorder, and secondary is build of iron by medical conditions like anemia and chronic liver disease. In this paper I chose to cover more about the hereditary one, Hereditary hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder categorized by inappropriate dietary absorption of iron causing advanced collection of iron in tissues, mainly in the liver, pancreas, heart, endocrine organs, and skin which may lead to end-stage organ damage during or after middle age. Hemochromatosis is common mostly among causcasians. Identification of risk factor
Environmental and lifestyle changes that may affect it are Oral iron supplement, eating a lot of meat, Exogenous estrogen, vitamin C, Genetic or Acquired Disorders, Hepatitis B or C infection also Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Having two duplicates of a mutated HFE gene.. If your parent or sibling have hemochromatosis, you're at risk of developing it. Or if you have family that have problem with alcohol, heart attacks, diabetes, liver disease, and arthritis your risk of hemochromatosis is greater. Ethnicity. Northern European people are more likely to get hereditary hemochromatosis. Gender: Men are more prone to have hemochromatosis than women and when they do have it they developed the symptoms earlier than. Because women lose blood every month through their period or when they give birth. After menopause or a hysterectomy, the risk for women increases. Alcohol use increase the chance of someone getting hemochromatosis and also symptoms may start after the age of forty, but can occur as early as 30. Determine modifiable and non-modifiable risk factor
Modifiable risk factor for hemochromatosis are diet, alcohol. Non modifiable risk factors are age, gender, and genetic. Measure to alter the risk factor. They have to get the iron levels down to the way it was. phlebotomy is the best way to reduce. Donating the blood is important but patient need a prescription from a doctor to do so. A person with severe excess of iron buildup have to give blood 8 times in a single month. Also limitations of heme is very important to these patients. we eat two types of iron heme and non-heme. Hemes iron are very easy to sop up. According to (healthline 2015). Meats like beefs, and a type of tuna called blue fin have a high amount of heme . some foods that are non heme are fruit, vegetable, and grains. So they have to avoid those types of food that have a lot of heme in them, do not take iron supplements, avoid alcohol and iron supplements.

DISCUSSIOSIONS ABOUT USE OF RISK FACTOR.
Nurses and other health professionals can have the patients who have at least one risk factor have a risk assessment done based on what the risk assessment says they should administer some test like transferrin saturated test, serum ferritin even if the tests come negative, the health care provider should still give them advice on how to lower their risk in the future. Normal range for body iron in women is 2.5 g and in men is 3.5 g. hemochromatosis may not detect until later since symptoms may be deferred until iron buildup is high (eg, > 10 to 20 g).