Causes of congenital anemia in babies

Many children will suffer from congenital anemia since birth. Anemia is very harmful to the child's body. If the child is anemic, the body's resistance is particularly poor, and the child will faint at any time. Such symptoms will make parents very worried. They are worried about the child's abnormal symptoms. The child with anemia will not be able to eat and the body is too thin. So what are the causes of congenital anemia in babies?

Anemia in children is divided into four degrees: mild, moderate, severe, and very severe according to the amount of hemoglobin and red blood cell count in peripheral blood. According to the mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), anemia is divided into four categories: macrocytic anemia, normocytic anemia, microcytic anemia and microcytic hypochromic anemia. According to the cause of the disease, anemia is divided into three categories: hemorrhagic, hemolytic and underproduction.

Causes

According to the cause of the disease, anemia is divided into three categories: hemorrhagic, hemolytic and hypoplastic:

1. Hemorrhagic anemia

(1) Acute blood loss such as trauma, hemorrhagic diseases, etc.

(2) Chronic blood loss such as intestinal malformations, ulcer disease, hookworm disease, intestinal polyps, idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, etc.

2. Hemolytic anemia

(1) Intrinsic defects of red blood cells ① Red blood cell membrane defects such as hereditary spherocytosis and hereditary elliptocytosis. ② Red blood cell enzyme deficiency such as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, pyruvate kinase deficiency, etc. ③ Abnormalities in hemoglobin synthesis and structure such as thalassemia, abnormal hemoglobin disease, etc.

(2) External abnormalities of red blood cells ① Immune factors include the presence of antibodies that destroy red blood cells, such as neonatal hemolytic disease, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia, etc. ② Infectious factors such as parasites, bacterial toxins, and hemolysins destroy red blood cells. ③ Chemical and physical factors such as benzene, lead, arsenic, snake venom, burns, etc. can directly destroy red blood cells. ④Others such as hypersplenism.

3. Insufficient red blood cell production

(1) Iron deficiency anemia and nutritional megaloblastic anemia due to lack of hematopoietic substances.

(2) Bone marrow suppression, aplastic anemia, severe infection, malignant tumors, etc.

treat

1. Nutritional iron deficiency anemia

(1) Identify and eliminate the cause of the disease.

(2) Prevent and treat infection.

(3) Take iron supplements.

(4) Correct picky eating habits and increase the intake of iron-rich foods according to digestive capacity.

2. Nutritional megaloblastic anemia

(1) Eliminate the cause: such as correcting the bad eating habits of the child or the mother, and adding complementary foods in a timely and reasonable manner.

(2) Supplement vitamin B12 and folic acid.

The above introduces the various causes of congenital anemia in babies. These causes must be promptly improved and prevented when treating the baby. Preventing the cause is a good way to treat the disease. When facing the disease, treatment not only requires improving the cause of the disease, but also giving the child more blood-enriching foods in life. If it is a congenital disease, the treatment will be more complicated, but don't give up treatment.