Should thalassemia be checked

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Thalassemia is a kind of anemia, is a genetic disease, many pregnant women need to do pregnancy test after pregnancy, but for thalassemia, whether it needs to be checked, we still have some doubts, let's talk about thalassemia to check.

Should thalassemia be checked

First: thalassemia test is very necessary. The screening of thalassemia in pregnant women is carried out through general prenatal blood routine examination. If the mean corpuscular volume of a pregnant woman is less than 80, she may be the carrier of thalassemia gene. At this time, her spouse also needs to receive the mean corpuscular volume test. If the mean corpuscular volume of her spouse is greater than 80, there is no risk of giving birth to a fetus with severe thalassemia.

Second: if the average red blood cell volume of the spouse is less than 80, the husband and wife must accept the confirmation diagnosis at the same time to determine whether they are homothalassemia gene carriers. If the husband and wife are homothalassemia gene carriers, they must further do chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis as the gene diagnosis of the fetus.

Third: pregnant women with thalassemia due to genetic problems, so for this point, I hope pregnant women timely check. If the pregnant woman is thalassemia, then the husband also needs genetic analysis, so that he can have a certain understanding of the situation of the baby. If the examination results are not obvious, amniocentesis is needed for the fetus. However, because amniocentesis has certain risks, friends need to consider carefully when choosing amniocentesis.

matters needing attention

Thalassemia is mostly due to the patient's family members should have the disease, therefore, when pregnant women have thalassemia family members, it is very necessary to check whether the fetus is healthy, so as to have a healthy baby without worries.