Patient's question:
What should I do if my child has thalassemia? When I went to the hospital for a blood test, the doctor said my child has thalassemia. Could you please ask the doctor what kind of food the child should eat?Doctor's answer:
Thalassemia, also known as Mediterranean anemia, is a group of hereditary hemolytic anemias. Its common feature is that the deficiency in the globin gene leads to a reduction or complete inability to synthesize one or more types of globin chains in hemoglobin. This results in changes in the composition of hemoglobin. The clinical manifestations of this group of diseases vary in severity, mostly chronic progressive hemolytic anemia. If both husband and wife are thalassemia patients, their child has a 25% chance of being "normal," a 50% chance of becoming a very mild or mild thalassemia patient, and a 25% chance of suffering from severe thalassemia. It is recommended to seek medical treatment under the guidance of a doctor. Generally, there will be some improvement, but the specific outcome depends on the current severity of the condition.