Infantile acute leukemia symptoms?

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Acute leukemia is a malignant tumor of the hematopoietic system, also known as blood cancer. It is caused by abnormal blood cell hyperplasia in the hematopoietic tissue and entering the blood flow, or even infiltrating into various tissues and organs of the whole body. What about the symptoms of acute leukemia in infants?

Infantile acute leukemia symptoms?

The onset of childhood acute leukemia is more acute, early performance for fever, anemia and bleeding. Children with leukemia often have fever at the onset, which can be low fever (37.5 ℃ ~ 38.0 ℃), irregular fever or persistent high fever. One of the causes of fever is tumor fever, that is, leukemic cells themselves release pyrogens, causing body temperature rise; Another reason is secondary infection. The forms of infection are complex and diverse, but pneumonia, gastroenteritis, pyelonephritis, skin furuncle, oral ulcer, and even dangerous sepsis. This is because of leukaemia in children with normal leucopenia, the ability to defense against infection caused by decline.

It often appears in the early stage with varying degrees. It is usually characterized by progressive pallor, especially the pallor of skin and lip mucosa. It can appear shortness of breath, facial edema, weakness and other symptoms after activity. The anemia of T-ALL was not serious at the time of diagnosis because of its acute onset. Anemia and bleeding are often out of proportion.

Most of the children have varying degrees of skin, mucosal bleeding, the site can be throughout the body, often manifested as skin purpura, dark blue and ecchymosis, and even subcutaneous hematoma. Gingival bleeding, epistaxis, oral mucosal bleeding, serious fundus retinal hemorrhage can occur, resulting in decreased vision, increased intracranial pressure. In addition, gastrointestinal and urinary tract bleeding, clinical manifestations of hematochezia, hematemesis and hematuria. If intracranial hemorrhage is manifested as headache, vomiting, convulsions and coma.

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If you find some symptoms of leukemia, you must be treated as soon as possible, so as to get a radical cure. Childhood acute leukemia can not be ignored. When your child has obvious symptoms, parents must be alert and take preventive measures in time.