THALASSEMIA – SYMPTOMS, CAUSES AND PREVENTION|
Thalassemia is an inherited blood condition. If you have it, your body has fewer red blood cells and less hemoglobin than it should. Hemoglobin is important because it lets your red blood cells carry oxygen to all parts of your body. Because of this, people with this condition may have anemia, which makes you feel tired. Thalassemia is genetic. It happens when you inherit mutated genes from your parents that change your hemoglobin. You have it from birth. You can’t catch thalassemia the way you catch a cold or the flu. If both of your parents carry thalassemia, you might get it. If you inherit two or more copies of abnormal genes from your parents, you may get mild to severe thalassemia, depending on what type of protein is affected.
There are two forms of it; Minor Thalassemia and Major Thalassemia. A person with a trait or minor form may not have symptoms or only mild ones. They may not need treatment. Major thalassemia is a severe genetic blood disorder characterized by low hemoglobin and fewer RBCs in the body. As we all know hemoglobin is the vital substance that provides oxygen to all the other systems of the body. Children with moderate to severe thalassemia usually have signs by age 2. Generally a baby is normal and healthy, his/ her hemoglobin levels are normal, systems work properly. But slowly what happens is that the hemoglobin in the baby’s body gets used up. Generally the hemoglobin in the body is replenished after being used up but it does not work in such a way for a baby with thalassemia. Because of this the hemoglobin levels drop, the oxygen supply reduces and the child’s systems become slow this might further even lead to death. The only way to save the child with thalassemia is blood transfusion, so every 15 to 30 days the child has to go through blood transfusion in order to stay alive. And this has to be done not for just 2-3 years but for the lifetime of the child.
SYMPTOMS –
Slow growth in children, wide or brittle bones, enlarged spleen (an organ in your abdomen that filters blood and fights disease), fatigue, weakness, pale or yellow skin, dark urine, poor appetite and heart problems are some of the symptoms of Thalassemia major.
Now there are no particular symptoms for thalassemia minor but if you have it and even your partner has it then there are 50% chances of your child having thalassemia minor and 25% chances having thalassemia major. So diagnosis is very important.
Thalassemia can be prevented by simply doing a thalassemia blood test, once in your lifetime.
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