ANEMIA
Disease information
ANEMIA
The blood is
a
vital weave of the human body. More or less
a
person
has
continuously around 5 liters circulating and is
a
vital
liquid
since she transports the nutritious substances and oxygen to all the cells, weaves and organs of the body.
It is formed of
red
globules or white eritrocitos, globules or leukocytes and plaquetas. The
red
color of the blood receives it from the hemoglobina, that is rich the
iron
and is in
charge
to transport oxygen to all the organism.
Anemia
is
disease
or upheaval of blood caused by loss of hemoglobina, which it is caused by
multiple
factors, that of some form alter their formation, their number and quality or favor his destruction.
This suffering can be very serious, since the lack of oxigenación in the vital organs like the heart, the brain, the lungs and others can cause until the death or irreversible damages. In the
children
and young people the
anemia
causes
problems
in the growth and physical and mental
development
.
Between the main causes of
anemia
they are the undernourishment, the
metabolic
lack of production of bony marrow, defects, the consumption of some drugs, the presence in the toxin body certain of the medio. ambiente, the hemorrhages or excessive loss of blood, the
cancer
and other
diseases
.
There are many types of
anemia
,
but
all have to do with the amount and quality of
red
globules, among them, is: The
anemia
by
vitamin
deficiency
B12
, the aplástica, the hemolítica, the one that the
iron
,
fólico
acid
deficiency
produces, the megaloblástica,
pernicious
and the the one of falciformes cells, among others.
Between the general symptoms of the
anemia
they are:
Low of
weight
and appetite.
Fatigue and weakness.
excessive Pallor and lack of coloration in the mucous, mainly of the eyes.
accelerated Frequency
cardiac
.
respiratory
Problems
.
Pain chest.
The opportune diagnosis is very important to avoid complications, mainly if frequent hemorrhages are suffered. In order to establish it the
doctor
it makes an exploration and it asks for
a
blood analysis to detect the levels of hemoglobina and present eritrocitos in the blood. The blood analysis also allows to look for pathologies in the form, the size, the color and the distribution of the sanguineous cells.
In some anemias the diagnosis also requires an analysis of the bony marrow, the one that is obtained aspiring with
a
hollow needle within certain bones, in special the one of the hip.
For its treatment the
red
consumption of blood is recommended, rich
iron
foods like
vegetables
of green leaf, the consumption or intramuscular application of
B12
vitamin
and in more severe cases
a
transfusion of blood or bony marrow.
IMPORTANT the content of this note is totally informative, does not replace the medical diagnosis reason why we do not become people in
charge
on its use.
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