Mortality Thalassemia is a disease of hereditary blood pressure. Approximately 10 percent of the total population of the country, about 1.5 million people and men, unknowingly thalassemia disease carriers. In our country about 8 to 10 thousand children are born with thalassemia disease.
Most patients suffer from anemia due to death of thalassemia. They take regular blood every two to four weeks. Thalassemia patients have to take medicines and blood from others until the death. It is not possible for most people of our country. In fact there is no permanent treatment for thalassemia diseases. The permanent treatment for this disease is 'Bone Marrow Transplantation' and Gene Theropy. But this is very expensive. If you take a little caution, then this tragedy can be avoided. Therefore, the responsibility of preventing the disease is the responsibility of all of us.
Why is thalassemia?
Thalassemia is due to abnormal hemoglobin genes. If both parents or parents have both thalassemia genetic progeny, it can be transmitted to children.
Signs
This disease is not diagnosed immediately after birth. If the child's age is more than a year, the parents notice that the child is becoming faded, increasing the child's weakness, feeling of depression, pains in the face, the yellowing of the skin (jaundice), the facial bone distortion, the gradual increase in the body, the stomach stretched outwards Grow or grow, dark colored urine
What happens in the body of thalassemia
Three months of red blood cells of human blood Red blood cells are continuously made of bone marrow and after three months the spleen removes the red blood from the blood. Thalassemia has less life expectancy for red blood cells. Because their hemoglobin is not properly formed, red particles break down easily and the bone marrow does not become possible to produce red blood cells at the same rate. On this one side, such as anemia occurs, on the other hand, the spleen gets bigger in size. Later, extra iron deposits damage the function of the organs of heart, pancreatic, liver, testicle etc. Due to frequent blood transfusion, thalassemia patients may get blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis, the bone marrow gets stretched and the bones become thin and fragile. It has the risk of breaking the bones of the spinal cord.
Those who are at risk of thalassemia
Those who have genital thalassemia disease, but no symptoms of the disease are known, they are called carriers of Thalassemia. They can lead a normal life. However, these children spread the thalassemia disease among their children. Thalassemia is likely to be born if both parents are carriers. Anyone who can be the thalassemia disorder. So before marriage, everyone needs to know, whether they are carriers of Thalassemia.
What to do to know the carriers of thalassemia disease
We can diagnose this disease with special type of blood test hemoglobin electrophoresis.
Examinations to know for thalassemia in pregnant women:
• Chorionic villus sampling
• Amniocentesis (Amniocentesis)
• Fetal blood sampling
Prevention
• Every citizen of the country has to be aware of this disease.
• If a family member has a history of thalassemia, then you must consult the doctor. It is important to consult a doctor before getting pregnant.
• The most important thing to live with thalassemia is to identify the carriers of the disease. For this, after taking the screening program, the carriers should be identified and advised. If two carriers do not marry each other, then no child can be born with thalassemia.
• The only way to prevent blood test before marriage. Pregnant women carrying thalassemia will have to evaluate pre-metallic thalassemia before 8 to 14 weeks of pregnancy or during pregnancy. If this examination is seen, the unborn child has been infected with Thalassemia. However, considering the fatal consequences of the child, it may be prevented from taking the child with the advice of the doctor.
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