Thalassemia

Thalassemia is prevalent in the Mediterranean countries, Middle East, parts of India and Southeast Asia. Thalassemia can affect both men and women. Thalassemia mutations are one of the most common genetic diseases. Severe for form for thalassemia is usually diagnosed at an early childhood and is a lifelong disease. Thalassemia can be worse than sickle cell anemia it depends on the type of thalassemia and can bring more complications than Sickle Cell Anemia.

What is Thalassemia?

Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disease. Thalassemia get the body to make fewer healthy red blood cells and less hemoglobin than normal, hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein in red blood cells carrying the oxygen to all part of the body. There are two types of Thalassemia, thalassemia minor and major.

Thalassemia Minor

Those who are born witch Thalassemia minor mutation only carries on gene of the mutation that means that they are carriers of the disease and aren't affected us much. They have fewer results on diseases or very little anemia at all. Those who carry thalassemia minor does not need blood transfusions or iron therapy, but it turn out that they are deficient of iron.

Thalassemia Major

A child who is born with thalassemia major develops symptoms of severe anemia during the first year of life. The lack the ability to produce normal hemoglobin, children with thalassemia major are

- Chronic Poverty

-They fail to thrive

- They don't have a normal growth

Prolonged thalassemia major can cause bone deformities and eventually lead to death within the first decade of life. The only treatment for thalassemia is blood transfusions.