Is thalassemia contagious

summary

Thalassemia is not infectious and hereditary. Thalassemia is a group of hereditary small cell hemolytic anemia. It is due to the defect of globin gene that the synthesis of globin peptide chain in hemoglobin is reduced or unable to be synthesized. So once suffering from thalassemia this disease, must be early detection, early diagnosis, so that timely prevention and treatment, then in the end thalassemia will be infectious? Now we come to a detailed understanding of it!

Is thalassemia contagious

First: thalassemia is caused by a genetic defect and is not contagious. Normal people have two groups of hemoglobin genes. If one of their parents carries this genetic gene, they can suffer from thalassemia. Therefore, thalassemia is only hereditary and not infectious.

Second, if the light thalassemia carriers marry with normal people, their offspring have half the chance to become light thalassemia carriers. If the husband and wife are homothalassemia gene carriers, the fetus has 1 / 4 chance of each pregnancy, half of the chance is gene carriers, and the other 1 / 4 chance is patients with severe thalassemia.

Third: the biggest harm of thalassemia is from anemia, so long-term anemia will lead to organ dysfunction and osteoporosis. If you suffer from the symptoms of thalassemia, we must early detection, early treatment, so as to effectively get rid of the disease.

matters needing attention

Note: thalassemia patients in addition to the diet to eat more chicken, milk, eggs and other nutritious food, but also need to eat some high protein rich food, as well as green leafy vegetables and vegetable oil, these are good choices for the prevention and treatment of thalassemia.