Symptoms of hemolytic anemia in adults

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The clinical phenomenon of hemolytic anemia depends on the urgency of the hemolytic process and the common place of hemolysis. Acute hemolysis often occurs suddenly. If it is seen in incompatible blood transfusion, a large number of hemolysis in a short time may have prominent chills, followed by high fever, backache and limb pain, headache, vomiting, etc. the patient's face is pale and jaundice is obvious, which is due to a large number of destruction of red blood cells, The toxic effect of its decomposition products on the body, more serious may have four weeks of circulatory failure, due to hemolytic products leading to renal tubular cell necrosis and lumen obstruction, and eventually induce acute renal failure, adult hemolytic anemia symptoms? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of hemolytic anemia in adults

1. Chronic hemolysis: mostly extravascular hemolysis, slow onset, anemia, jaundice and splenomegaly. Because of the long course of disease, patients with respiratory and circulatory system often have good compensation for anemia, the symptoms are mild. Due to long-term hyperbilirubinemia, patients can be complicated with cholelithiasis and liver function damage. In the process of chronic hemolysis, some inducements such as viral infection, patients can have temporary hematopoiesis stagnation, lasting about a week, known as aplastic crisis.

2. Acute hemolysis: the onset of acute hemolysis, a large number of short-term hemolysis caused by shivering, fever, headache, vomiting, low back pain and abdominal pain, followed by hemoglobinuria. Severe cases may have obvious failure or shock. Jaundice and other symptoms and signs of severe anemia followed.

Hemolytic patients with dizziness, palpitation and shortness of breath should rest in bed. They are easy to move slowly when sitting up and standing up. Do not sit up suddenly to prevent syncope due to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Hemolytic patients in the ward to be quiet, clean, temperature 18-20 degrees, humidity 50-60%, sunshine, winter ventilation 0.5-1 hour a day, to prevent convective wind, daily ultraviolet air disinfection 1-2 hours.

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Keep regular, good work and rest time, diet should be moderate, increase or decrease clothes at any time, prevention and treatment of cold. Hemolytic anemia patients can carry out appropriate activities, but not excessive fatigue, severe anemia bed rest.