Prologue of the disease

Information about thalassemia disease

Thalassemia is a serious genetic blood disorder. There are two types of thalassemia

1. Thalassemia Minor - Thalassemia is not a disease but a condition in hemoglobin. A person with thalassemia minor lives like a normal person. He does not know that he is thalassemia minor until he does a thalassemia minor test (HPLC).
2. Thalassemia Major - This is a disease that is present in a child from birth. As both mother and father are minor, hemoglobin is produced incorrectly due to a genetic change in their body. Due to this, their body begins to experience blood deficiency within a few months. Therefore, they have to undergo frequent blood transfusions. .Due to frequent blood transfusions, the amount of iron in the brain, heart, kidney, liver and other organs in the body increases and that organ fails and the baby becomes short-lived.

1. 3. Symptoms - Symptoms like being constantly sick, getting cold, feeling weak and depressed, lack of growth of body according to age, yellowing of organs, difficulty in breathing.
2. 4. Cause of disease - If both mother and father are minor then there is 25% chance that the baby will be normal, 50% chance that the baby will be minor and only 25% chance that the baby will be thalassemia major.
3. 5. Treatment - Bone Marrow Transplant is the only solution for this disease. For this, it is necessary to match bone marrow of sister / brother, mother and father, for this a family costs 70 to 80 thousand, otherwise they have to find an external donor, then to perform this operation in Mumbai, You have to go to Pune, Vellore, Bangalore, Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad.