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World Thalassemia Day: Is this genetic blood disorder stopped and treated? Expert answer
World Thalassemia Day is celebrated every year on 8 May to raise awareness about genetic blood disorders, which affects your body’s ability to produce a protein in normal hemoglobin, red blood cells. If you have thalassemia, your body will produce less healthy hemoglobin protein, which will cause anemia. According to experts, there are various ways to treat and treat the condition, including bone marrow transplants and iron chelmation. Read to know more about these.
Thalassemia affects thousands of children across India every year and is one of the most common genetic conditions, in which the estimated 100,000 children live with it.
Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that affects your body’s ability to produce hemoglobin and healthy red blood cells, making it very weak. According to experts, it experiences symptoms like anemia that range from light to severe.
Thalassemia affects thousands of children across India every year and is one of the most common genetic conditions with an estimated 100,000 children living with Beta Thalassemia head. It is a serious form that requires lifelong blood transfusions and medical care. Around 10,000 to 12,000 children are born with annual disease in India.
However, many people do not realize that Thalassemia is both stopped and treated.
“The disorder is passed from the parents to the child when both parents are a silent carrier of a defective gene involved in red blood cell production. Carriers are usually healthy and they never know that they carry the genes, until the screening is done,” Dr. Rasmi Palaseri, Consultant, Pediatrics Oncology, Ramaih Institute of Oncosins, Ramiah Memorial Hospital, Times said.
Dr. Palaseri says that it makes a premiere or early entanutal screening important. “When both partner carriers are found, genetic counseling can help them understand their options and prevent the birth of an affected child,” he said.
How can Thalassemia be treated?
In terms of treatment, bone marrow transplantation, or BMT – also known as hematopoietic stem cell transplant – is only available therapeutic option. This process replaces the patient’s defective bone marrow with healthy stem cells from a donor.
In recent years, even children without fully matched siblings can receive heploidantical transplant (from half-matched parents), with very good results in experienced centers.
In addition, iron chelation involves removing excess iron from your body. A danger with blood transfusions is that they can cause iron overload. Very high iron can damage the organs. If you receive constant infections, you can get iron disciples, which can be taken as a tablet.
Luspatercept injection is also given every three weeks and helps your body make more red blood cells. It is approved in the US for the treatment of transfusion-decent beta thalassemia.
Symptoms and symptoms of Thalassemia
Doctors say that symptoms you have completely depended on the type of Thalassemia and how serious it is. People who are tangible will have no symptoms other than fatigue. Some others include:
- Growth issues
- Delayed youth
- Fracture
- A increased spleen
- poor appetite
- Yellow or yellow skin – jaundice
- Urine
- Irregular bone structure in your face
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