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Types, Symptoms And Diagnosis Of Blood Disorders

By: Tis Amit Home | Health-and-Fitness | Diseases-and-Conditions


It's really hard to ignore the role blood plays in our body. It is one of the most important living tissues made up of liquids and solids. While, the liquid part, primarily known as plasma, is made of water, salts and protein, the other half of your blood is plasma. Apart from this, the solid part of your blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Any malfunction of red blood or white blood cells can lead to various blood disorders. In fact, at times blood disorders can lead to poor blood clotting and continuous bleeding. The disorders can result from defects in the blood vessels or from abnormalities in the blood itself. Today there are various types of blood disorders that must not be ignored as each blood disease have its own complication and require proper clinical care. Here are some of most serious blood disorders and best diagnosis method that can help you in knowing and curing blood disorders:

Anemia- It is one of is the most common blood disorder that occurs when the ratio of red blood cells or concentration of hemoglobin gets reduced in the blood. Though at times anemia itself is considered as symptom of a disease rather than a disease itself, but there are few major symptoms that must not be ignored and need to taken care of, like increased heart rate (tachycardia), difficulty in catching a breath, tiring easily and frequently, yellowing of skin, eyes, and enlarged spleen or liver. It can be cured very easily. The sooner you get to know the better it may help you in curing it properly. The most common diagnostic procedures that you can follow are blood test and bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy.

Hemolytic Anemia- Hemolytic anemia is another blood disorder in which the red blood cells are destroyed faster than the bone marrow can produce them. Basically, this type of disorder can be classified into two categories:

Intrinsic- In this type of blood disorder, the destruction of the red blood cells takes place because of the fault within the red blood cells themselves.

Extrinsic- In this type of disorder, though red blood cells are developed but later it get destroyed by getting trapped in the infection, spleen, or from drugs that can affect red blood cells.

The major symptoms of this type of blood disorder are weakness, intolerance of various physical activities and dark color of urine. Apart from this, it can be diagnosed through methods like blood test, urine test and bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy.

Thalassemia - Thalassemia is an inherited disorder that majorly affects the production of normal hemoglobin that carries oxygen to the tissues in the body. Thalassemia includes a number of different forms of anemia. However, the seriousness of this blood disorder basically depends on the number of genes that are affected. This blood disease can be easily diagnosed by blood test. Though, thalassemias also get passed on from parents to children therefore family genetic studies can also help in proper diagnose of this disease. This generally involves taking records of a family medical history and performing blood tests on family members to find out whether there are any missing or altered hemoglobin genes.

Porphyria - It is another category of blood disorder that is primarily caused due to the abnormalities that in turn leads in the production of a chemical compound called Heme. Now Heme is an important substance that is majorly produced by the body and the bone marrow and blood is the most vital content that holds the Heme. Generally, this blood disease is not easy to diagnose, but yet it can be checked by conducting a number of tests of the blood, urine and the stool.

Hemophilia - This disorder also known as hemophilia is hereditary bleeding disorder that is majorly caused by a shortage of a substance necessary for blood clotting. The lack of ability of blood to clot, or coagulate, leading to excessive bleeding, even from slight injuries is the trademark of Hemophilia. Although the density of symptoms may differ with this disease, but the disease is typical for the bleeding and typically occurs if an infant is circumcised. It can be analyzed by performing a set of blood tests.

These are some of the major blood disorders. Though each of them has its own way of analyzing or diagnosing, but each can be cured easily. All you need to do is take care of its symptoms and follow suitable curing procedure.




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