What are the symptoms of thalassemia

summary

I believe you all heard of thalassemia. The incidence of thalassemia is mostly in Southeast Asia. It has a high incidence rate in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan. It is a disease of hereditary hemolysis in South China. Clinical can be divided into mild, moderate, severe three, generally can survive to adulthood for light and part of the intermediate type, severe patients often died in infancy due to chronic hemolysis or repeated infection. So what are the symptoms of thalassemia? Now let's take a look at it.

What are the symptoms of thalassemia

Symptom 1, mild: mild anemia or asymptomatic, this disease is easy to be ignored, generally in the investigation of family history will be found. Mild thalassemia does not need special treatment. However, the daily care of patients is very important, the key to the disease is maintenance.

Symptoms 2, moderate: mild to moderate anemia, most patients can survive to adulthood. Moderate patients, generally can live to adulthood and can participate in labor, if usually pay attention to moderate labor and pay more attention to daily life, can reduce complications, improve disease symptoms.

The third symptom is severe: most of them are stunted and often die before adulthood. The typical symptoms are hip shaped head, long bone fracture, a few patients will appear cholelithiasis, leg ulcers. Severe patients can be complicated with many diseases, especially a threat to the life of infants.

matters needing attention

Thalassemia patients should eat more nutritious food, eat more high-quality protein rich food, such as eggs, milk, fish, lean meat, shrimp and beans. Never eat more foods with high iron content, such as liver, spinach, apples, etc.