What are the main symptoms of acute leukemia?

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Acute leukemia is a kind of blood disease which is difficult to cure. Its incidence rate is relatively high. Once it appears, it will bring great pain to patients. When people suffer from advanced acute leukemia, the symptoms are more common, such as anemia, bleeding, infection and so on. Let's learn more about it.

What are the main symptoms of acute leukemia?

Anemia: Patients with acute leukemia are prone to anemia symptoms in the early stage, and it is quite serious when it continues to the late stage. Calcium is a progressive disease, accompanied by dizziness, palpitations, physical fatigue and shortness of breath. When patients were confirmed, about 60% of the patients had hemoglobin lower than 60g / L.

Bleeding: mainly in the gum, nasal cavity and oral mucosa bleeding points, some serious patients have hematemesis, hematochezia. A small number of patients will have ecchymosis or purpura, for female patients, it is easy to be accompanied by increased menstruation or prolonged menstruation. Thrombocytopenia is the main cause of bleeding symptoms in patients. In addition, the infiltration of leukemia cells and the stimulation of chemotherapy drugs will cause damage to endothelial cells, resulting in extensive local bleeding symptoms.

Infection and fever: clinically, about 52% of adult patients will have fever symptoms, and at the same time easy to concurrent infection, mainly stomatitis. When the patient is complicated with gingivitis or pharyngitis, ulcer symptoms, some even necrosis will appear in severe cases; Of course, perianal inflammation or perianal abscess is also more common.

matters needing attention

Eat more foods rich in iron: anemia is one of the main manifestations of leukemia, so in the drug treatment at the same time, encourage patients to often eat some foods rich in iron, such as moving peas, black beans, green vegetables, jujube, brown sugar, black fungus, sesame paste, egg yolk, etc.