Eastern Mediterranean anemia

Eastern Mediterranean anemia is an inherited anemia, living in the Eastern Mediterranean coastal people, Africans and Asians suffering from this disease most often.
　
Eastern Mediterranean because of anemia due to control manufacture of heme oxygenase gene is defective. In patients with severe cannot manufacture normal heme, and their red blood cells are small, fragile, will soon burst, red blood cells in patients with mild is slightly less than red blood cells.
　
Its symptoms include pale skin, chronic fatigue, shortness of breath. Eastern Mediterranean anemia, mainly through blood tests diagnosed.
　
Serious Eastern Mediterranean anemia from several months to be the start of each month for blood transfusion therapy, however regular blood transfusions could eventually be damage to internal organs such as hearts and livers in children with, because these organs may be an excessive amount of iron. This problem can be made by infusion of a drug called desferrioxaminc on a regular basis for prevention. Some suffer from serious Eastern Mediterranean anaemia in children, if regular blood transfusion and injection of drugs such as desferrioxamine, generally in good condition. They can normal growth, most of us can live to middle age. Minor Eastern Mediterranean anemia does not need any treatment.
　
Eastern Mediterranean anemia in children with parents if a child like another, can appear through genetic consultation to calculate the child Eastern Mediterranean anemia of probability.