why is bloodtransfusion the least prefered method in management of iron deficiency anaemia?
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Because blood transfusions are extremely invasive and there are many non surgical things a person can do to help with this problem. Like eating foods high in iron. Liver, green leafy foods, etc. can help. Your doctor could prescribe you iron pills that are more potent than the over the counter iron pills. What helped me and a friend of mine with anemia is drinking more grape juice and drinking ginseng. It made a huge difference in our health.
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The condition you have is hemachromatosis. The best thing for you to do is an internet search for hemachromatosis. A common treatment is to regularly have a unit of blood removed---similar to donating blood.
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This depends on the type of surgery and the comfort level of the surgeon.  In some surgeries, you are expected to lose more blood than others, so your hemoglobin should likely be higher.  Other surgeries might result in no blood loss at all, so it might be okay to do it with a slightly low hemoglobin.  It is hard to give you a solid number, because some surgeons I work with might do an knee replacement in a person with a hemoglobin of 10, while others would never do that procedure unless their hemoglobin was above 11.5 or so.  Also, the normal hemoglobin level is different for men and women, so these numbers are just hypothetical examples.
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If your iron levels are higher than13 ppm., then you are probably getting enough iron from your diet.  Cook in an iron skillet to be safe.  I know iron supplements are kind of gross, but iron is inportant in yur babies ability to form red blood cells for itself.  Best wishes
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The red blood cells have a special oxygen transport molecule called hemoglobin. It has an iron atom in the middle of it that binds to the oxygen very loosely in the lungs where oxygen is plentiful. Then, when the red blood cell reaches tissue that has a low oxygen concentration, the loosely bound oxygen dissociates from the hemoglobin, ready to be used by the cells in the body.\n\nThe right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs where the oxygen is picked up. Then the blood goes back to the left side of the heart to be pumped out to the rest of the body so the oxygen can be delivered.
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"Currently, severe thalassemia is treated by blood transfusions, and a minority of patients are cured by bone marrow transplantation. Mouse models are proving to be useful in assessing the potential of gene therapy."\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=gnd.section.250
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anemia : lack of rbcs. resp system will not work to fill potential. red blood cells deliver o2 to the bodys organs and take away waste products co2. hypoxia can occur low o2. hypercapnia high co2.
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Advantages-  Blood transfusions would come from your clone\n             and not strangers.\n\n             Chance for you to weigh out your options.\n             Ever wonder what would have happened if you \n             would have taken a different path.  Your clone\n             could do it for you.\n\n             Organ transplant on hand.\n\nDisadvantages-  Its like playing God.  Just shouldn't be \n                done.\n\n                Clone could turn out to be an evil twin and\n                try to steal your life.  They are not \n                robots, ya know.\n\n                One of me is enough!
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Yes young and old, it's not common because with vitamin supplements it's treamtable. Iron-deficiency anemia affects your health as well. It can sap your energy and make it harder for your body to fight infection. And if you're anemic later in pregnancy, you're more likely to have problems if you lose a lot of blood when you give birth. You may feel dizzy, have a rapid heart rate, or have other symptoms that require you to stay in the hospital an extra day or two. You're also more likely to need a blood transfusion. \n\nCalcium interferes with your body's ability to absorb iron. So if you're taking calcium supplements, or an antacid that contains calcium, don't take either one while you're eating iron-rich foods or at the same time as your iron supplement. For the same reason, don't take your supplement with milk, which is rich in calcium. Drink milk between meals, instead. The same goes for tea and coffee, which contain polyphenols that interfere with the absorption of iron from supplements and plant sources. \n\nEating or drinking something rich in vitamin C at the same time you take your iron supplement or eat iron-rich plant foods can help your body absorb significantly more of the type of iron found in non-animal sources. Good vitamin C choices include a glass of orange or tomato juice, a handful of strawberries, sweet (bell) peppers, or half a grapefruit. Meat and fish (sources of heme iron, which your body absorbs much more easily) can also improve your absorption of the iron in non-meat foods. For example, putting a bit of beef in a pot of vegetable chili can help you absorb iron from the vegetables.\n\nIf your test indicates that you're anemic, your practitioner will prescribe an iron supplement of 60 to 120 mg a day or more. To make sure you absorb as much of the iron as possible, take your iron pills on an empty stomach. Wash them down with water or orange juice (the vitamin C helps with absorption) but not with milk (calcium hinders absorption).\n\nNote that these doses refer to the amount of "elemental iron," or pure iron, in a supplement. Some labels list the amount of ferrous sulfate (a kind of iron salt) instead of or in addition to the amount of elemental iron. A supplement that contains 325 mg of ferrous sulfate will give you about 60 mg of elemental iron. Others use ferrous gluconate, 300 mg of which yields about 34 mg of elemental iron.\n\nOne more important thing to note: Be vigilant about keeping any pills containing iron in childproof containers and away from children. More kids die from iron overdose each year than from any other kind of accidental drug poisoning. In fact, a single adult dose can poison a small child.
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It's not true. But giving blood is the smarter of the two things to do.
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Red blood cell (RBC) count. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. They also carry carbon dioxide back to the lungs so it can be exhaled. If the RBC count is low (anemia), the body may not be getting the oxygen it needs. If the count is too high (a condition called polycythemia vera), there is a risk that the red blood cells will clump together and block tiny blood vessels (capillaries).
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To transfuse, or not to transfuse ... This is a Very Personal decision! ...\nAlthough I Don't mind others knowing what mine is on this matter, for now I  would rather share the Reasons for it being what it is ...\n\nSo here are links to the Reasons behind my decision:\n(Links to other subheadings are found on each Web page in the group.)\n\nThe detailed information in the brochure:\n\nHow Can Blood Save Your Life? \nBlood - Vital For Life \nBlood Transfusions - How Safe? \nQuality Alternatives to Transfusion \nYou Have the Right to Choose \nThe Blood That Really Saves Lives \nJehovah's WItnesses - The Surgical/Ethical Challenge - Appendix #1-\nFrom: Journal of the Americn Medical Association.\nBlood: Whose Choice and Whose Conscience?  - Appendix #2 -\nFrom: New York State Journal of Medicine.\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/hb/index.htm\n(Use the links on the Left of the Web page to access the rest of the brochure.)\n\nOne of the points that has Really stuck in my mind from that brochure, (I think it was this one) is that stored blood CAN'T TRANSPORT OXYGEN until MANY HOURs AFTER TRANSFUSION!  ...  (Isn't Transport of Oxygen' one of the Main reasons they Claim a transfusion is Necessary? ... So, in such a case, isn't the transfused blood Only functioning as a volume expander?) ...  So, you might say that a transfusion actually 'Dilutes' one's blood (blood (where oxygen is concerned)  making it Less Capable to do that job ...  Also, that applies to All stored-blood, even Autologous (one's own blood, stored before an operation)!  ...  Even if we were to disregard all the infections, and the mislabelling-mishandling of the blood that often happens, can You see good reason to risk a transfusion, when so many, Much-Safer alternatives exist -- some which Carry Oxygen IMMEDIATELY?\n\nRead on for more info:\n\n"Nonblood Treatment — What Experts Say"\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1999/3/8/article_01.htm\n\nBloodless Medicine and Surgery - The Growing Demand : \nPioneers in Medicine \nBlood Transfusions \nThe Growing Demand \nSome of the Methods \nThe New "Standard Care"?\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/1/8/article_01.htm\n(Use the links on the left of this Web site to access all of these listings.)\n\nJehovah's Witnesses Instrumental in Heart Surgery Advance\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1996/1/22/instrumental_in_advance.htm\n\n ... Because Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood, many Dr.s have been compelled to become Much More Skilled in surgery, to avoid uneccesary bleeding.  They've Developed New Techniques & Alternative Therapies, in very large part, because Jehovah's Witnesses created a Need & a Market for it. ...This began Way before the AIDs & other threats!\n\nHere's another eye-opener for the less-informed on this subject ...\n\nOutstanding Conference on Bloodless Surgery in Moscow\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1999/4/22a/article_01.htm\n\nYou might also like to view the VIDEOs on this subject, featuring specialists:\n\nTransfusion - Alternative Strategies - Simple, Safe, Effective\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/vcae/article_01.htm\n\nTransfusion-Alternative Health Care—Meeting Patient Needs and Rights\nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/vcnr/article_01.htm\n\nNo Blood-Medicine Meets the Challenge \nhttp://www.watchtower.org/library/vcnb/article_01.htm\n\nAfter learning just how Dangerous blood transfusion is, and that it Always causes  recuperation to take Much Longer than if it had been avoided (and many of the reasons why), you might be very happy to learn that Many of Jehovah's Witnesses are trained to Share this information with our doctors, from which Everyone reaps the benefits of likely having More Cooperation and better health care from their physicians, when they choose alternatives to blood transfusion ... see:\n\n\nJehovah's Witnesses and the Medical Profession Cooperate\nhttp://www.watchtowe
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yeah it really works.. but u'd better consult with a doctor first because it's not recommended for people who have anemia or who are hypotensive
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Blood transfusions are given I.V.  I don't think this usually counts as "surgery" unless a cut down is needed to insert an I.V. when it can't be inserted normally.  The other two...blood vessels and heart transplants are done surgically almost routinely these days.  Every time a viable heart is donated, there is someone in need to receive it.  During a cardiac by-pass surgery, blood vessels are taken from the leg and used for by-pass.....very, very routine.  Blood/blood products (plasma for instance) tranfusions?  Done everyday in almost every hospital during & after surgery and/or if someone has an anemia problem....
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I don't think blood type has anything to do with it.  The best diet includes vegetables, whole grains and milk products.
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You can get iron that way, but that's not going to raise your iron levels enough to make you un-anemic.  Geez, just suck it up and eat some meat, or spinach, or liver . . .\nAnything's gotta taste better than rust.
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Most blood transfusions are of packed red cells and not serum/platelets or white cells.  Red cells have no nuclei/genetic material.  Blood type and rH factor are important and mismatch can yield a type of rejection.  The white cells are ultimately "rejected"   In someone with an inactive immune system (chemo patient) the blood can attack the recepient!