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Anemia is a decrease of red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood. This results in an inability to transport oxygen to the blood supply to the tissues, why is pale and feels a sense of fatigue are two of the main symptoms of the disease.

The goal of treatment is as far as possible the amount of oxygen that blood can carry. This is achieved by increasing the number of red blood cells or blood hemoglobin concentration.

The lack of vitamins or iron in the body can cause some types of anemia. This lack may be due to a poor diet or may be secondary to certain diseases or health problems. Read the rest of this entry »

There are diseases associated with anemia, for example, in some people with anemia arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythm).

An arrhythmia is a disorder of the rhythm of the heartbeat. If it becomes a constant can damage the heart coming to alter, sometimes as serious as a heart failure. Anemia can also cause injury to other organs of the body’s blood can not bring enough oxygen. As a result may occur in extreme cases, cardiac arrest. Read the rest of this entry »

As the mother must produce blood for both the fetus and to herself during gestation requires a greater amount of iron (found in meat, sausage, beans), so supplements are usually required in the form of this mineral drug, though under medical prescription.

It is also necessary for the synthesis of red blood cells, an adequate intake of vitamins and folic acid. With proper treatment, anemia (formerly called “physiological”) of pregnancy can be avoided.

This anemia is quite common in pregnant women especially in the second trimester of pregnancy. Also called gestational anemia and is caused by a 50% increase in blood volume of women. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is a disease of more than 30 million people worldwide and is related to deficiencies in the diet and inadequate health status.

This disorder usually be compensated when the summer season ends, because some foods rich in iron re-enter the absence of dietary change occurs in the global consumer habits.

Diet for Anemia

Foods that contain iron, vitamin B12 or folic acid are particularly suitable, respectively, anemia deficiency of these nutrients, they include eggs, meat, fish, nuts, liver, legumes and vegetables. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most common symptoms of anemia is fatigue (feeling of exhaustion and weakness). If you suffer significant fatigue is anemia, which may prevent both affected the performance of many activities for their inability to gather energy for them.

In addition to the fatigue characteristic symptoms of anemia are pallor accentuated skin and mucous membranes (lips, conjunctiva), brittle nails, fatigue and unexplained weakness or dizziness, among others. The speed with which blood is lost is a determinant of severity of symptoms.

If the loss is rapid (accident, surgery, ruptured blood vessels) the loss can be fatal when it is slow (stomach ulcers, hemorrhoids, nosebleeds) may at first have no symptoms or these are mild, such as fatigue or fatigue. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or hemoglobin levels in blood are below normal.

The normal hemoglobin level is determined by factors such as age, gender or physical fitness among others. The blood hemoglobin level at which a man is considered to have anemia is 13.5 g/dl, while in women the levels of hemoglobin must be below 12.0 g/dl.

The diagnosis of chronic anemia involves a maintained decrease in hemoglobin or red blood cells below normal. Read the rest of this entry »

The treatment of anemia depends on the cause. If your iron deficiency anemia is caused by, you’ll probably get extra iron in the form of tablets or a drink. Never use iron supplements without first consulting the person who accompanies pregnancy. These resources can cause black stools or constipation, this is normal and not alarming.
It is therefore important that your diet contains high fiber and that you drink enough.
If you simultaneously use vitamin C (eg from fruit or fruit juice) improves the absorption of iron. Coffee, tea and milk decrease the absorption of iron properly. Use these drinks so not during the meal, but for example mid-morning and afternoon. Have your blood checked regularly if you use a long iron preparations. Read the rest of this entry »

Anemia is an inadequate rate of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Anemia is the complete blood count, a hemoglobin below 11 grams per liter.

Anemia is not necessarily a lack of red blood cells. You can have a normal number of red blood cells, they are too small: a shortage of hemoglobin. Conversely, you can have red blood cells too big, apparently insufficient in number, whereas the hemoglobin may be normal: there is no anemia.

These parameters are identified on the blood count for red cells or erythrocytes or RBCs, or Hb hemoglobin, MCV, which defined the mean corpuscular volume and thus its size, which defined the MCH rates mean corpuscular hemoglobin, ie the a red blood cell contains about as hemoglobin. Read the rest of this entry »

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), is a cancer of the myeloid line of white blood cells. It is transparent by the rapid proliferation of abnormal cells which accumulate in the bone marrow and interfere with the production of normal blood cells. Acute myelocytic leukemia, also known as acute myelogenous leukemia, may lead to overgrowth of the gums and blurred vision. Acute leukemia is believed to begin in a single somatic hematopoietic progenitor that transforms to a cell incapable of normal differentiation. Many of these cells no longer possess the normal property of apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Leukemogenesis is frequently associated with chromosomal abnormalities and gene translocations. Many translocations are characteristic of a particular subtype of acute leukemia and often convey additional prognostic information to the clinician.

Tobacco smoking appears to increase the incidence of this form of leukemia. The signs and symptoms of acute myelocytic leukemia result from the fact that, as the leukemic clone of cells grows, it tends to displace or interfere with the development of normal blood cells in the bone marrow. This leads to neutropenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia. Acute myeloid leukemia is the most common acute leukemia affecting adults, and its incidence increases with age. Although several risk factors for acute myelocytic leukemia have been identified, the specific cause of AML remains unclear. As an acute leukemia, AML progresses rapidly and is typically fatal within weeks or months if left untreated. Exposure to certain chemicals can also cause leukemia. Workers exposed to benzene over long periods have an increased risk of developing acute myelocytic leukemia.

Tests such as chest X rays and examination of the spinal fluid for leukemic cells can help doctors determine how far the disease has spread. The identification of acute myelocytic leukemia is also similar to that of acute lymphocytic leukemia. The symptoms of AML are caused by replacement of normal bone marrow with leukemic cells, resulting in a drop in red blood cells, platelets, and normal white blood cells. These symptoms include fatigue, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, and increased risk of infection. In rare cases, a mediastinal mass may cause symptoms of respiratory insufficiency or superior vena cava syndrome. A bone marrow biopsy is almost always performed to confirm the diagnosis and to distinguish AML from other types of leukemia.

Acute myeloid leukemia is a potentially improvable disease, but only a minority of patients are cured with current therapy. AML is treated initially with chemotherapy aimed at inducing a remission; some patients may go on to receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Once acute myelocytic leukemia is in remission, the person usually receives a few courses of additional chemotherapy a few weeks or months after the initial treatment to help ensure that as many leukemia cells as possible are destroyed. People who have not responded to treatment and younger people who are in remission but who are likely to have a high rate of relapse may be given high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation. A new drug, gemtuzumab ozogamicin, which combines an antibody with a chemotherapy drug as an attempt to specifically “target” the leukemia cells, is effective in some people after relapse has occurred. The long-term benefits of the drug have not been determined.