How do you diagnose thalssemia?

Answer 1

I have this trait, I was diagnose by my doctor that sent off test. It is rare here I think more from the meteraininan. My pawpaw, my mom, me, and my daughter have this trait. My brother did not. Alot of people will not even know they have it, your cell are not shaped regular and you have more of either the red or white than supposed too. You really are is any danger, I just have learned that your blood/ iron will never be as high as a normal person's. always at or below 10? You have annemia and are always tired or wore out than most people, You are NOT suppose to take and kind of Iron or vitamins with iron in them because our bodies can not release it, it just build up/ poisioning us. You CAN eat Greens and stuff high with iron, that is what you need to build your blood and to make you feel better, You just don't need to take it in a pill and if you do not regular like you would a vitamin as your body will collect the iron. If you plan on having a kid be sure to have you husband check to make sure that he don't have the thalssemia trait because if he does and you do too then you have a great chance of having a child with full blown thalassemia which with full blown thalassemia your life expectancing is maybe midlife and life long blood tranfusions till then as with JUST the trait (which if you only have then most likley one of your kids will) then your child's only symptom will be annemia/ low blood/ and needs to eat foods high in iron. When I was pregnant I had to get blood tranfusions twice because my blood dropped dangeruosly low, I stayed drained and tired. Hope this helps. I guess black people have sickle cell and white people have this.

Answer 2

I have this trait, I was diagnose by my doctor that sent off test. It is rare here I think more from the meteraininan. My pawpaw, my mom, me, and my daughter have this trait. My brother did not. Alot of people will not even know they have it, your cell are not shaped regular and you have more of either the red or white than supposed too. You really are is any danger, I just have learned that your blood/ iron will never be as high as a normal person's. always at or below 10? You have annemia and are always tired or wore out than most people, You are NOT suppose to take and kind of Iron or vitamins with iron in them because our bodies can not release it, it just build up/ poisioning us. You CAN eat Greens and stuff high with iron, that is what you need to build your blood and to make you feel better, You just don't need to take it in a pill and if you do not regular like you would a vitamin as your body will collect the iron. If you plan on having a kid be sure to have you husband check to make sure that he don't have the thalssemia trait because if he does and you do too then you have a great chance of having a child with full blown thalassemia which with full blown thalassemia your life expectancing is maybe midlife and life long blood tranfusions till then as with JUST the trait (which if you only have then most likely one of your kids will) then your child's only symptom will be annemia/ low blood/ and needs to eat foods high in iron. When I was pregnant I had to get blood tranfusions twice because my blood dropped dangeruosly low, I stayed drained and tired. Hope this helps. I guess black people have sickle cell and white people have this.

Answer 3

The following tests are used to screen for thalassemia disease and/or trait: complete blood count, hemoglobin electrophoresis with quantitative hemoglobin A2 and hemoglobin F, free erythrocyte-protoporphyrin.

Answer 4

Thalssemia is diagnosed by performing blood tests. Complete blood counts will tell you the amount of hemoglobin, red blood cells, white blood cells, etc. present in the blood, and people with the disease will have considerably lower levels of healthy red blood cells and hemoglobin. They may even have smaller red blood cells, which would be an indication as well. Secondly, special hemoglobin tests can be done to determine if a patient's hemoglobin has normal alpha and beta globin protein chains.

Usually, a child with severe thalssemia will be diagnosed because they will have severe anemia early on, in which case, blood iron level tests can be done to cross out anemia due to iron deficiency. In more mild cases, anemia is also the determinant of a diagnosis, but happens later on in life and would usually come about after a routine blood test indicates anemia.

Lastly, if an individual has a family history of thalssemia, they may have genetic tests done to determine if they are carriers for the disease. This should happen before they have children. If they are carriers, they may have prenatal tests done on the placental fluid of any children they conceive to determine if the fetus has the disease.