Will favism get better when growing up?

In our daily life, we consume different nutrients every day, and beans can supplement protein. These legumes include soybeans, peas, soybeans, broad beans, etc. Although broad beans can supplement protein, eating too much will cause favism. Favism is a hemolytic disease that can occur in adults, but mostly occurs in children. So if children suffer from this disease, will they get better when they grow up? Let’s take a look at it together below.

1 Favism will not be cured when you grow up, because this disease is a type of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, which is a genetic defect disease. Therefore, it cannot be cured even if you grow up. You can only prevent it by not eating broad beans and processed broad bean products, not touching broad bean flowers, and not taking medicines such as pearl powder, honeysuckle, Sichuan lotus, bezoar, wintersweet flowers, bear bile, and baby-saving pills.

2 Favism brings great harm to patients. Acute intravascular hemolysis occurs within 24 to 48 hours after eating broad beans, which will make patients feel unwell, fever, nausea, vomiting, rapid anemia, jaundice, hemoglobinuria. Some patients with severe hemolysis will also have symptoms of shock, oliguria, anuria, acidosis and acute renal failure, and even death in severe cases. The severity of the disease has nothing to do with the amount of broad beans consumed.

3. Once favism occurs, it must be treated in time. The first thing to do is blood transfusion. Because favism is an acute hemolytic disease, blood transfusion is the most effective treatment method. Severe patients need repeated blood transfusions. Adrenal cortical hormones can also be used, which mainly have an immunosuppressive effect. Acidosis should also be corrected, which is a key treatment measure for rescuing seriously ill patients.

Favism cannot be cured when you grow up, and it is also somewhat hereditary, so patients with favism should be more careful and it is best not to come into contact with anything related to broad beans. If favism occurs, you must get emergency treatment, otherwise some serious patients will die within a few hours.