Does minor thalassemia have any effect on the baby?

Thalassemia is a symptom of anemia and is also a relatively common health problem. Many people will undergo thalassemia screening during pregnancy to determine whether they have thalassemia problems. Because many people believe that thalassemia will have a certain impact on the baby. In fact, severe thalassemia will have a great impact on the baby, but mild thalassemia will have little impact on the baby.

There is a little impact, but it is not significant. It is recommended that pregnant mothers do not be picky eaters in normal times, and eat as wide and diversified diet as possible, eat more high-protein foods, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc. Usually, mild thalassemia does not have obvious symptoms, but moderate and severe cases will have lower blood color counts, make the person weak and susceptible to illness, and recover more slowly from colds and fevers. The person will easily feel tired and have an enlarged spleen. In severe cases, the height development of the baby in the belly may be affected. In severe cases, splenectomy and blood transfusions can be performed to increase the blood color count, but these are only temporary treatments for a certain period of time. If you want a thorough treatment, you can only replace the bone marrow.

2. Is thalassemia minor hereditary?

If only one of the parents has minor thalassemia, there is no need to worry about the disease being passed on to the child. But if both parents have thalassemia and they are of the same type, there will be a one in four chance that it will be passed on to the child, with the same chance that your child will become moderate or severe thalassemia, and a one in two chance that the child will suffer from minor thalassemia.

1. Thalassemia is a genetic disease. If one of the couple is diagnosed with mild thalassemia, there is a 50% chance that the baby will be born with mild thalassemia. There is currently no satisfactory treatment for thalassemia. The reasonable treatment is to do a good prenatal diagnosis. If one of the couple is diagnosed with moderate thalassemia before pregnancy, the pregnancy should be terminated, and consanguineous marriage should be prohibited to reduce the incidence of thalassemia.

3. Patients should pay attention to rest and nutritional intake, actively prevent infection, avoid excessive fatigue and colds, strengthen physical exercise, enhance their own physical fitness, and use antipyretics, analgesics, sulfonamides and anti-cold medicines with caution. Generally speaking, patients do not have any special dietary taboos. As long as there is no obvious bleeding, the impact on life, work and study will not be too great.