A three-year-old child has low platelets?

A three-year-old baby is at a stage of growth. If he has low platelet count, it is likely caused by disease. Generally, there are many reasons for low platelet count. Leukemia, infectious diseases, allergic purpura, etc. can all cause low platelet count. If you want to confirm which disease is causing it, it is best to do a comprehensive physical examination. Parents don’t need to worry and follow the doctor’s arrangements after the examination.

What is the cause of low platelet count in children?

1. Aplastic anemia, acute leukemia, radiation sickness, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, immune thrombocytopenia, hypersplenism, etc.: patients have a tendency to bleed, such as petechiae, erythema or unexplained nosebleeds on the skin.

2. Inflammation, taking sulfa drugs, blood diseases and congenital genetic defects, etc.: but most of the causes are unknown.

3. Abnormal platelet count: It is often accompanied by abnormal platelet function, such as thrombasthenia and giant platelet syndrome, which are typical diseases of low platelet function. However, in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia), diabetes, tumors and surgical operations, increased platelet function is an important cause of thrombosis. The simplest way to understand whether there are abnormalities in the platelets in the body is to do a routine blood test, which can find out whether the number of platelets is normal and make a preliminary judgment on its function based on the platelet count results. Further examination of platelet function. For the symptoms of low platelets, Chinese medicine can be used for treatment. For example, the Selaginella purpura recipe. The treatment was relatively thorough and had no side effects.

What are the symptoms of low platelet count in babies?

There are many reasons for thrombocytopenia, but the main cause is the destruction of platelets, which shortens their lifespan, thereby reducing their number in the blood and causing pathological changes in the human body. The most prominent symptom of thrombocytopenia in children is that the child will have a fever all over the body and the high fever will persist. In severe cases, obvious purple scars will appear on the child's face and skin. Children with thrombocytopenia may also become irritable and cry incessantly due to the impact of the disease.

Children with thrombocytopenia often suffer from common symptoms such as nosebleeds and bleeding gums. Sometimes it is difficult to see the bleeding from broken skin. The child is weak and easily gets sick. Late at night, children with thrombocytopenia will sweat all over their body, feel hot and thirsty, and their palms and soles will become hot, so parents must pay special attention to the symptoms of thrombocytopenia. Another thing to note about the main symptoms of thrombocytopenia in children is that as the disease worsens, children with thrombocytopenia gradually begin to experience general weakness, anorexia, and mental depression. Children will also have difficulty defecating, which can easily lead to constipation, abdominal distension and indigestion.

What to do if your child has low platelets

1. To clarify the cause and solve the problem of low platelets, we must first know what causes the child's low platelets. Different causes require different treatments.

2. Use hormones sparingly. Glucocorticoids for mild cases and large doses of immunoglobulin for severe cases are commonly used drugs for the treatment of low platelets in many general hospitals. However, for children, the toxic side effects of hormones are too great. Giving them to children at adult doses will have a serious impact on their subsequent physical development and a relatively high recurrence rate. Therefore, it is clinically recommended to use hormones sparingly.

3. If the child's platelet count is greater than 30 and there is no bleeding tendency, he should be temporarily observed without treatment and can go to the hospital for regular blood tests. If the platelet count is between 20-30, it depends on the degree of bleeding in the child. Treatment should be given for severe bleeding. If the platelet count is less than 20, correct treatment should be given immediately.

4. Immunotherapy is the main treatment. Abnormal immune function is the root cause of low platelet count in children. Compared with hormone treatment, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine immune cell activation therapy also incorporates the essence of Chinese medicine treatment, which stabilizes the therapeutic effect while reducing the toxic side effects of hormones. And through unique biological immune technology, we can regulate the immune environment, restore the disordered immune system and functions to normal, and prevent children from recurrence caused by various infections during the treatment process.