What is the Thalassemia ?

Thalassemia is a genetic blood disease that children get from their parents. This disease is recognized in the child only after 3 months. Due to this disease seen in most children, there is a lack of blood in the body and if proper treatment is not given, the child can die. Let's know what is this disease and its symptoms and methods of prevention.


 What is this disease?

Usually, the age of red blood particles in the body of every normal person is about 120 days, but the age of red blood particles in the body of a patient suffering from Thalassemia decreases to only 20 days. It directly affects the hemoglobin of the person. Due to which the person becomes anemic and starts suffering from some disease all the time.

 

 Types of Thalassemia

Thalassemia is of two types. Minor Thalassemia or Major Thalassemia. When a chromosome is present in the body of a woman or a male, the child becomes a victim of minor thalassemia. But if the chromosomes of both female and male individuals deteriorate, it creates a condition of major thalassemia. Due to which, after 6 months of the birth of a child, blood stops in his body and he needs to be given blood again and again.

  Identification of Thalassemia

Thalassemia is a blood disorder associated with the production of abnormal hemoglobin and red blood cells. In this disease, due to reduced red blood cells in the patient's body, he becomes a victim of anemia. Due to which he may feel weakness, tiredness, bloating in the stomach, dark urine, skin color yellow all the time.

 Home remedies to avoid Thalassemia-

To save a child from this serious disease, firstly, before the marriage, the blood test of the boy and girl should be made mandatory.

- If you are married without getting blood test done, then your DNA should be tested within 8 to 11 weeks of pregnancy.

- A person suffering from minor thalassemia lives his life towards any normal person. Without getting blood tested, many times he does not even know that there is any defect in his blood. In such a situation, if the blood of husband and wife is tested before marriage, then the child from this genetic disease can be saved to a great extent.

 Treatment of Thalassemia

Treatment of Thalassemia depends on the severity of the disease. Many times children suffering from Thalassemia may need blood transfusions 2-3 times in a month.

-Bone marrow transplantation is possible to treat these diseases successfully, but matching bone marrow is a very difficult process.
In addition, this serious disease can also be treated by blood transfusions, bone marrow transplants, medications and supplements, surgery to remove the possible spleen or gallbladder.