Atypical symptoms of childhood leukemia?

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Leukemia is a kind of malignant tumor of hematopoietic stem cells. It is characterized by diffuse proliferation of abnormal white blood cells (leukemic cells) in bone marrow to replace normal bone marrow tissue and often invade the surrounding blood, which changes the quantity and quality of white blood cells in the surrounding blood. The number of white blood cells in the blood is often significantly increased, but sometimes it can be normal or even reduced, and it can extensively infiltrate the liver, spleen, lymph nodes and other tissues of the whole body Leukemia is not uncommon in China and all over the world. It ranks the first or the second in the mortality of various malignant tumors in China, but it ranks the second in the mortality of malignant tumors in children and adolescents. Atypical symptoms of childhood leukemia? Let's talk about it.

Atypical symptoms of childhood leukemia?

1. Nearly 40% of leukemia patients have early symptoms of bleeding. Bleeding can occur in all parts of the body. It is common in ecchymosis of unknown skin, bleeding of mouth, nose and gums, menorrhagia, etc. Blurred vision often indicates fundus hemorrhage in patients with leukemia. Severe headache with nausea and vomiting often indicates intracranial hemorrhage.

2. Fever: fever is the early symptom of leukemia in more than half of the patients, which can be low fever below 38 degrees or high fever above 39 degrees or even 40 degrees. Most of them are recurrent and irregular fever. Fever often has symptoms of respiratory tract infection such as nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and expectoration, or urinary tract infection such as frequent urination and urgency, which often leads to misdiagnosis. At this time, if you check the patient's peripheral blood, you can see a large number of abnormal cells.

3. Hemorrhage: nearly 40% of leukemia patients have hemorrhage as their early manifestation. Hemorrhage can occur in all parts of the body. Blurred vision often indicates fundus hemorrhage. Severe headache with nausea and vomiting often indicates intracranial hemorrhage. This also belongs to the early symptoms of leukemia.

matters needing attention

1. First of all, in the prevention of leukemia, we must start from the diet, eat more fruits and high protein food: according to experts, children who often eat fruits have a much lower risk of leukemia than children who don't often eat fruits. Therefore, give children to eat more fruit or have many benefits, fruit nutrition is very rich, can play a role in increasing resistance. Secondly, eating more high protein food is also a preventive measure for leukemia. Eat more curry: curry is an indispensable seasoning in the recipes of many countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia. It is said that curry contains a kind of ginger chemical substance, which has anti-cancer effect and also has a certain role in preventing leukemia. 3. In addition, in the prevention of leukemia, patients' friends should improve their body resistance, which can avoid the invasion of disease, so they should exercise more. People know that life lies in exercise, so exercise is essential in daily life. Exercise can strengthen the body and enhance immunity. If the immunity is sufficient, the disease is not easy to invade the human body.