Thalassemia is a genetic disorder that shifts from the parents to the children. Thalassemia patients are those who are dependent on blood lifetime because they can't generate blood. If one Thalassemia minor marries other thalassemia minors then there is a 25% chance that their upcoming children will be thalassemia majors or patients. The upcoming child will be unable to produce blood in his/her body at age of 3 to 6 months. It is better to check before the marriage whether they both are thalassemia minor or not.
It is such a hazardous disease that does not have any permanent cure. The only way of control is to provide blood to the thalassemia victims at the time. Some of them need blood after every week and some of them need blood after every 15 days. They require lifelong transfusions to live a healthy life.
The symptoms of thalassemia are a short nose, thin upper lips, smooth philtrum, flat midface, small eye openings, small head, severe abdominal swelling, swollen liver, etc.
Not only these, but they also confront a lot of problems like dark urine, bone problems, jaundice, poor appetite, and slowed growth.
As we know that hemoglobin enables red blood cells to carry oxygen but a victim's body does not make enough protein chains and red blood cells don't form properly and can't carry enough oxygen. Geiens control how the body makes hemoglobin protein chains are missing or altered then thalassemia occurs.
I plead to the public that make themselves present in blood donation camps and give blood to them because your blood can save precious human lives. There are many thalassemia care centers to which victims are admitted. These centers conduct blood donation camps and give those blood to victims. We must support them to continue this virtuous task.
Abdul Malik Rauf
Turbat
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