[Blood and serum iron values in children at child day care centers. 1].

The parameters of iron in blood and in serum were studied with 90 children aged from 13 to 36 months from eight crèches of a large city. The investigations were performed in state of health, in state of acute respiratory disease and until the fourth week of convalescence. In the acute state iron of serum, transferrine and saturation index of transferrine are situated outside the limits of the normal state. The initial values of the state of health were not reached yet in the fourth week of the convalescence.