All You Need To Know About Thalassemia Treatment

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All You Need To Know About Thalassemia Treatment
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What Is Thalassemia

• Thalassemia are inherited blood disorders.
• This disease causes the body to make fewer
  healthy red blood cells and less hemoglobin than
  normal.
• People suffering from Thalassemia can have mild
  or severe anemia.

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Thalassemia Test

• Thalassemia is diagnosed using blood tests,
  including CBC and special hemoglobin tests.
• People having mild Thalassemia can be diagnosed
  after a regular blood test shows they have
  anemia.
• If the person is a member of an ethnic group and
  has anemia, doctors might suspect Thalassemia.

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Treatments For Thalassemia

•  There exists three standard treatments for
  moderate and severe forms of Thalassemia. 
•  These treatments include 
• Blood transfusions
• Iron chelating therapy
• Folic acid supplements. 

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Blood Transfusions

• This is the main treatment for people who have
  moderate or severe Thalassemia. 
• This treatment gives you healthy red blood cells
  with normal hemoglobin.
• During the transfusion, a needle is used to
  insert an intravenous line into one of your blood
  vessels.
• Through this line, you receive healthy blood.
• The procedure usually takes 1 to 4 hours.

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Iron Chelation Therapy

• Regular blood transfusions can lead to a buildup
  of iron in the blood. This is known as iron
  overload.
• It damages the heart, liver, and other parts of
  the body.
• To prevent this damage, doctors use iron
  chelation therapy to remove excess iron from the
  body. 
• Deferoxamine and Deferasirox are the two
  medicines used for iron chelation therapy.

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Folic Acid Supplements

• Folic acid are forms of a water-soluble B vitamin
  that helps build healthy red blood cells.
• Doctors may recommend folic acid supplements in
  addition to treatment with blood transfusions
  and/or iron chelation therapy. 

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Possible Future Treatments

• Studies are going on to insert a normal
  hemoglobin gene into stem cells in bone marrow. 
• Thalassemia test include Complete Blood Count,
  Blood Smear, Ferritin, TIBC, UIBC, and
  Transferrin, Red Blood Cell Count, Hemoglobin,
  Iron Tests, Hemoglobinopathy Evaluation, Amniotic
  Fluid Analysis etc

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