Preparation
Iron Profile is the complete iron story in one panel — serum iron (what is circulating), ferritin (what is stored), and TIBC (how much carrying capacity your blood has committed to iron). Read together, the three separate the conditions that haemoglobin alone cannot: true iron deficiency, iron overload, and the iron-locking pattern of chronic inflammation.
This is the workup behind the most common blood finding in India — iron deficiency anaemia, driven by heavy periods, dietary gaps and absorption problems — and it is equally the test that catches the rarer opposite problem of iron loading.
One home blood draw, morning fasting preferred, covers the full profile. Book it alongside a CBC if your doctor is investigating anaemia: the CBC shows the effect on your blood, the iron profile shows the cause. Reports reach your app for your physician to act on.
Because single iron values mislead — they swing with meals, inflammation and timing. The three tests together give your doctor a definitive answer about deficiency, overload or inflammation patterns.