How to treat thalassemia

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Having a healthy baby is every mother's wish, but some diseases can harm the health of unborn fetus, such as thalassemia. So how to test the fetus for thalassemia? What should pregnant mothers with thalassemia pay attention to? In this article, we will briefly introduce what is thalassemia, and how to test whether the fetus has thalassemia and what should pregnant mothers with thalassemia fetus pay attention to.

How to treat thalassemia

First: thalassemia (thalassemia) is the most common and harmful genetic disease in southern provinces of China, with a high probability of occurrence, generally more than 10%, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. Thalassemia is mainly divided into α and β thalassemia, and α thalassemia is more common. The occurrence of thalassemia is due to the abnormal structure or synthesis rate of globin peptide chain in hemoglobin molecule, resulting in the imbalance of peptide chain and the main symptom group is hemolytic anemia.

Second: generally to the mother pregnant 16 weeks, go to the hospital to do down's syndrome examination, do examination can check whether the fetus has this poor. It is necessary to add the data of examination results and ask questions to better analyze the condition and whether there is a family history. In addition, if the gestational age of the fetus is more than 4 months, it is necessary to determine whether the fetus has thalassemia through amniotic fluid chromosome test.

Third: but if the gestational age of the fetus is more than 4 months, how can we check whether the fetus has Mediterranean anemia? Don't worry. When the fetus is big, there are naturally other methods to test, that is to go to the hospital to determine whether the fetus has Mediterranean anemia by amniotic fluid chromosome test.

matters needing attention

If the pregnant mother is pregnant with thalassemia, she must pay attention to daily rest. Generally, she should be given rich nutrition, high calorie, high protein, multi vitamin, rich inorganic salt and diet, so as to help restore hematopoietic function, avoid overwork and ensure sleep time