Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency world wide. The World Health Organisation recommends universal iron supplementation of pregnant women and young children in developing countries. It is a well known fact that treatment with iron supplements is associated with gastrointestinal adverse effects such as constipation, nausea, metallic taste, diarrhoea, epigastric distress and vomiting as well as the occasional severe anaphylactic reactions. In rare instances, therapeutic treatment with iron may be associated with increased risk of infection as bacteria and other infectious agents also utilize iron as a growth factor. Hereby, we report a rare entity known as sepsis syndrome which surfaced in a 20year old female after receiving parentral iron therapy.
