World Hemophilia Day: Know the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment?

World Hemophilia Day: Know the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment of hemophilia from experts

You must have seen some people around you, who often complain that if they ever get hurt, they have so much bleeding that it is very difficult to stop it. Everyone gets hurt, but at the same time, the natural process of blood clotting starts, which stops bleeding after some time. 

 What is merge

Actually, a protein called the clotting factor is present in our blood and gets activated in an accidental situation like an injury, which stops the bleeding. Also, despite the lack of platelets called thromboplastin, bleeding continues to occur from the affected part of the body due to bites, bruises, any internal hemorrhage, or surgery, and a similar medical condition is called hemophilia. Some people feel that this is a child health problem, but in reality, it is not. 

This genetic problem can happen to anyone. There is no specific symptom, it is recognized when there is a problem in stopping bleeding during an injury or surgery. Since children are often hurt during sports, in such a situation, when a child does not stop bleeding, hemophilia is diagnosed in childhood itself after an examination. This is why people feel that it is a merge related to children.

 Before any surgery, doctors do check it and those who have this problem, By giving medicines first, an attempt is made to increase the amount of clotting factor in their blood.

Key features

- Do not stop bleeding when hurt

- Frequent joint pains

- Sudden swelling in any part of the body

- Blood coming with urine or stool

- Blue rashes on the body

- Bleeding from the nose

- Bleeding from teeth or gums

- Feeling tired and weak

Prevention and treatment

This is a congenital problem associated with heredity, so by examining the blood coming out of the umbilical cord of the baby immediately after birth it can be found out whether the newborn has this problem or not?

 If there is a family history of this disease in a family, both the husband and wife must check it before planning pregnancy, if the report is positive then the family life should be started only after treatment. 

The gynecologist must also provide information about the family history associated with the problem so that special care should be taken at the time of normal delivery that the baby does not get hurt, otherwise uncontrolled bleeding may occur from his body. Special treatment is given for its treatment. If identified at the right time, this problem can be controlled.