What should I do if my child has thrombocytopenia?

There are many children suffering from leukemia around us. These children will die because they cannot get good treatment. This is very heartbreaking. Speaking of leukemia, the most fundamental cause of this disease is the decrease in platelet content in the blood. Thrombocytopenia not only makes it easier to develop leukemia, but also easily causes other blood diseases. So, what should we do if children have thrombocytopenia?

1. Patients with thrombocytopenia should be provided with a high-protein diet, and more foods such as milk, lean meat, fish, eggs, and beans should be included in the diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that heat in the blood will cause reckless behavior, and for those with bleeding caused by heat, it is advisable to choose foods that are cold in nature. Vegetables and fruits are neutral and cool in nature, and are beneficial for stopping bleeding. They can be used in diet, especially water chestnuts, lotus roots, shepherd's purse, black fungus, pears, and fresh dates.

2. If purpura patients also have anemia, they should eat iron-rich foods such as animal liver, pork stomach, poultry gizzard, lean meat, and egg yolk. Vegetables with high iron content such as amaranth, rapeseed, shepherd's purse, celery, kohlrabi, day lily, amaranth, spinach, tomato, etc. can be eaten frequently. Gluten, wheat bran, white fungus, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc. can also be used in cooking dishes.

3. When the bleeding of thrombocytopenia patients is small and gradually stops, the diet of thrombocytopenia should be based on the principles of strengthening the spleen, replenishing qi and absorbing blood. At this time, choose red dates and peanuts (with peanuts) as medicinal foods to prepare medicinal meals and dishes, or chew them in appropriate amounts every day. Figs and raisins can also be eaten frequently.

4. For those who suffer from long-term illness, qi deficiency, fatigue and weakness, the diet for thrombocytopenia can also include astragalus, red dates, yam, peanuts, wolfberry, longan meat, codonopsis, lotus root nodes, eclipta, agrimony, sheep bones, peanut skins, black beans, pig skin, lentils, walnut kernels and other medicinal and edible products. They can be used to make porridge, stew or decoction, which is especially suitable for elderly thrombocytopenic purpura. In order to help patients recover as soon as possible, it is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat the symptom of thrombocytopenia.

If you find that your child has thrombocytopenia, you must take your child to the hospital for treatment. If conditions permit, you can choose high-end treatments such as bone marrow transplantation. After all, medicine is relatively developed now, and thrombocytopenia is still easy to treat. It is recommended to let children eat more platelet-supplementing foods so that they can develop good eating habits.