Is thalassemia intermedia serious?

Modern people's health awareness is getting stronger and stronger. Most people have regular physical examinations every year. We usually don't have a special understanding of many diseases. If we have regular physical examinations, we can discover many diseases hidden in the body and achieve early detection and early treatment. Intermediate thalassemia is a very serious blood disease that requires active treatment. Failure to treat it in time will endanger life safety.

Is Thalassemia Intermediate serious?

1. Patients with thalassemia usually develop the disease in infancy, and the initial symptoms are anemia, physical weakness, developmental delay, etc.

2. In most cases, people with thalassemia intermedia can live and work like normal people. As long as you pay attention to conditioning in diet and daily life, you can slowly alleviate the symptoms and reduce complications. If the effect is good, the condition will continue to improve.

Thalassemia can be life-threatening if not treated properly, so it is important to seek early treatment.

Thalassemia is also known as thalassemia. It was first discovered in the Mediterranean region, so it is called thalassemia. Patients with thalassemia are not only found in the Mediterranean region, but also all over the world, with more cases in the South Pacific, Central Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean region. There are also many thalassemia patients in Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi in my country. Thalassemia is a hemolytic anemia disease in which red blood cells are easily lysed and destroyed. The main reason is that the patient has an autosomal genetic defect, which leads to an obstacle in the synthesis of globin chains, resulting in insufficient quantity of one globin or several globins, or a complete lack of both.

Treatment of thalassemia intermedia

1. General treatment

General treatment is a treatment measure that any thalassemia patient must take, and of course it is also a treatment method that patients with thalassemia intermedia need to take. Generally speaking, it includes paying attention to rest and nutrition, actively preventing infection, and appropriately supplementing vitamins and folic acid.

2. Blood transfusion and iron removal therapy

This treatment method is still an important treatment method. Small amounts of red blood cell transfusions are currently only suitable for intermediate thalassemia, while high amounts of transfusions should be used for severe thalassemia. However, this method is more likely to cause hemosiderosis and iron chelation therapy should be performed at the same time.

3. Iron chelation therapy

This treatment often uses deferoxamine, a drug that causes iron to be excreted from urine and feces, but cannot prevent the intestinal absorption of iron. This drug has few side effects, but long-term use can cause cataracts and long bone development disorders. Large doses can cause vision and hearing problems. In addition to deferoxamine, other drugs that can be used include donkey-hide gelatin, Tiezhiyuan tablets, etc. This approach is also suitable for patients with thalassemia intermedia.