Treatment For Aplastic Anemia

Question: a plastic anemia treatment? My sister is having treatment for aplastic anemia now soon, i was wondering if anyone else has had this its not a bone marrow transplant as its not that severe anymore i dont undertand all much about this treatment it dampens her immune system and boosts her bone marrow? any advice tips or what to expect would be great! thanks

Answer: Are they going to give her a blood transfusion of just red blood cells? If they're not doing a bone marrow transplant, then that might be what they're doing. The only advice I can give you without knowing for sure it that's what she's having, is this; it's very important you keep away from her if you feel a cold coming on or you have any type of illness that she could catch simply because her immune system is compromised and she won't be able to fight off infection as easily as you and I can. So that's the most important thing to keep in mind. Does she live with you or is she out on her own? If she's home, you can help her from getting to tired by offering to do things for her. She will need some help because she is going to get very tired from time to time. You know your sister better than anyone. You know her likes and dislikes so only you can really help her. I hope she does well. God bless you for wanting to help her.

Question: Any parents dealing with Aplastic Anemia? My 7 1/2 year old son has been undergoing treatment for Aplastic Anemia for the past 6 months. I need to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Has anyone been through this? I have been dealing with this disease for over 6 months now. I now what causes it, how it is treated and the odds of him developing other conditions because of this. I am asking if anyone has ever been through it, and may have an encouraging story, to help me get through this hell.

Answer: Hello, I personally don't have any experience with aplastic anemia, but 6 months ago I met at the daycare where I was working a boy who is currently 9 years old who suffered from Aplastic Anemia when he was 2 years old. I had the chance to speak to his mom and she told me that at that time he couldnt have the traditional therapy a patient like him was supposed to have ( i think it was a bone marrow transplant, but i am not 100% sure) so he got this therapy with steroids if i dont remember wrong he got a couple of years of this therapy, and ... well.. right now he is 9 and accoording to his mother (and what i could see!) he is doing wonderfully!! So.. yes, there is light at the end of the tunnel!!! just ask God and he will listen to you! (sorry i cant' be more helpful but that is all i can remember for now).

Question: APLASTIC ANEMIA: Guidelines for Treatment and Management? Please!!!I need help on the guidelines for treating and managing aplastic anemia. Anyone??? Thanks so much!!!

Answer: Well aplastic anemia is rather a rare disease, it can be congenital or acquired, most however are idiopathic (without apparent cause). In aplastic anemia, it results on bone marrow aplasia (markedly reduced hematopoiesis). Therefore, in addition to severe anemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia (deficiency of platelets) are also seen. As for the medical management, it is presumed that the lymphocytes of patients with this condition destroy the stem cells and consequently impair the production of RBCs, WBCs and platelets. However, despite this severity, aplsatic anemia can be successfully treated in most people. BMT (Bone marrow transplantation) or PBSCT (Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation) can cure the disease (potentially for younger than 60 years of age, who have compatible donor and otherwise healthy). In some, disease can be managed through immunosuppressive therapy. These immunosuppresants prevents the patient’s lymphocytes from destroy in the stem cells. Antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporine combination is used most commonly. If there is a relapse (patient becomes pancytopenic again), reinstitution of same immunologic agents may induce another transmission. As for the corticosteroids, corticosteroids are not very useful as an immunosuppressive agent because patients with aplastic anemia appear particularly susceptible to the development of bone marrow complications from steroids (example is aseptic necrosis of the head of femur). Supportive therapy plays a major role in the management of aplastic anemia. Any offending agent is discontinued. Patient is also supported with transfusions of RBCs and platelets as necessary. Death usually is caused by hemorrhage/ infection. Since patients withthis condition are vulnerable to problems associated with RBC, WBC, and platelet deficiencies, they should be assessed carefully for signs of infection and bleeding. Specific interventions also for neutropenia and thrombocytopenia are also used. Sorry for the medical terms. =)

Question: Aplatic anemia treatment in bangalore.? My mother is suffering with aplastic anemia. I am interested to know the hospitals for this treatment and procedure for this treatment.

Answer: Try this link: http://www.manipalhospital.org/index.php?option=com_department&task=view&department_id=36 Email: [email protected] Monday to Saturday: 7 am to 8 pm Manipal Hospital Airport Road Bangalore, 560 017 Karnataka India Telephone: + 91 80 2502 4444 / 3344 Fax:+ 91 80 2526 6757 Take care.

Question: Undergoing a bone marrow transplant next week- what to expect? I am undergoing a bone marrow transplant next week from an unrelated donor as treatment for Aplastic Anemia and abbreviated PNH. Can anyone (from personal experience with themselves or a family member please, i dont want something you copied and pasted from the internet!) give me an idea of what to expect? I will be doing chemo and a smaller dose of radiation for preconditioning. What will the chemo and radiation do to me and what can i expect in the weeks and months following the transplant? Thank you very much for your time! :) Also, if someone has gone through the same procedure, feel free to email me, it would be wonderful to speak to someone who is going through/went through the same thing!

Answer: Hey! Seeing as no one answered yet, I'll take a shot at it, ha ha. I've been through the Allogeneic BMT process myself to treat my form of leukemia. Chemo: I've been through high doses of chemotherapy many times before, so I didn't find it too difficult. Which chemo drug are they giving you? They all have pretty much the same effects, though. Nausea, vomiting, hair loss, weakness/fatigue. It's not that bad, though. The worst part for someone who hasn't gone through chemo is probably the hair loss after the nausea wears off. Some people don't lose a lot of hair, some have delayed hair loss. You'll get a central line for chemo so that you don't need injections. I already had a Hickman catheter, so I didn't need to get one. Radiation: I never find radiation hard to handle, but the first time I had it, I felt pretty sick. It's not too bad, just the combination of radiation and chemo made me extremely tired, I could barely walk! But, it depends on the person. Hopefully you won't be too tired/sick. It got more manageable with each treatment. I talked to some people who have had the same thing done and they told me that they didn't really have any side effects from radiation. After BMT: I got some pretty good pain meds, but I stayed a little sore. Staying in reverse isolation was the worst part for me. I got a few friends to come, but when I started I was only allowed one visitor per day and then that got increased to two. I developed acute GVHD, which was pretty good because it wasn't severe and it kept my leukemia under siege, but obviously it can be chronic, acute, both or neither and varying in severity. Probably a month after getting out of reverse isolation, I was pretty much recovered. I still took steroid treatments for GVHD, but in really small doses. Feel free to email me if you have any other questions! I wish I had someone to talk to about the BMT experience before I had mine, but it's really not that bad.

Question: Has any one gotten immunosuppressent therapy either recently or before? I've recently been dx with aplastic anemia and am preparing for treatment with immunosuppressent therapy but what scares me is that the side effects are that your more at risk for tumors and cancer. I need some info and consoling can anyone please help? Thanks in advance.

Answer: The risks versus the benefits of treatment of anything have to be considered. Aplastic is a serious and life-threatening disease. Doctors are required to tell you every side effect ever known to man. Most of the side effects do not happen, or are manageable. Aplastic anemia itself can be associated with an increased risk of cancer. If you are not treated, you may die from the aplastic anemia. Pray that you live long enough to worry about cancer. Good luck- my prayers are with you.

Question: Question on clinical investigations? Q. A clinical study is performed to assess treatment out comes in patients who have macrocytic anemia.A comparison of laboratory testing strategies shows that the best startegy is to test for both B12 and Folate levels.What is the most important reason for obtaining the results for both B12 and folate? 1.Both nutrients are absorbed by a similar mechanism 2.Both nutrients are needed for DNA synthesis 3.Multilobed neutrophils occur with deficeincy of one but not the other. 4 Aplastic anemia can occur with deficiency of either. 5.Spinal cord injury occurs with deficiency of one but not the other. It would be excellent if you could explain your answer too...help is much appreciated thanx!

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Question: correct my essay, grammer mistakes and such? There are many diseases which take the life of many people daily. Three of those diseases are Sickle Cell Anemia, Albinism, Dyslexia, and Ashtma. Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease which affects the red blood cells in a person’s body. The disease transmutes the red blood cells into a more sickle- shaped cell. Symptoms of Sickle Cell first seem to begin when the child is three months old. The main issue with having sickle- shaped cells is that they block up the blood vessels blocking oxygen from parts of the body. Sickle Cell primarily affects African Mediterraneans, Middle Eastern, and Indian Ancestry are carriers, (Bojonowski). Among African Americans approximately one out of every 500 babies is diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia. It is estimated that globally there is one of approximately 250,000 babies with Sickle Cell Anemia. There are many symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease, the most severe including stroke and immune system failure. The Sickle Cell Gene must be inherited in pairs for it to be Sickle Cell Anemia. If only one trait is inherited the body can produce enough hemoglobin to be sufficient enough for the body. Common symptoms are fatigue, paleness, and shortness of breath. A brutal form of Anemia is aplastic anemia, in which causes an infection with parovius, a long single strand of DNA virus, which causes a halt to the production of new red blood cells this form of anemia is commonly called "aplastic crisis" (Kapes). Another symptom is enlarged spleen and infections. Sickle Cells stops blood flow through the spleen and other important organs in the body. Which causes the spleen to enlarge and leave it open to many infections. Chest pain can happen at almost any age for Sickle Cell Disease. The cells tend to block off blood vessels in the lungs causing sharp, acute pain in the chest. The result could be from as small as a fever or shortness of breath. Albinism is a very unique disease. Unlike most diseases the cause of it is the pigments in a person’s skin. Albinism is found in five out of 100,000 babies every year in Europe and America (Longe). The most common form of Albinism is called “oculocutaneous albinism”, which affects hair, skin, and eyes. Everyone with this form of Albinism encounters sensitivity to bright light. Albinism is caused when a gene for eyes or skin make less or no pigment for that gene. Strangely, it is possible to have one normal gene and one albino gene which will fortunately give the child normal skin and eye color. Dispelling a myth about albinism is that it supposedly causes people to have pink or red eyes. Infected individuals usually have irises varying from light gray to blue or even brown. Many people portray Albinos with red eyes; however, that is wrong because the red eye is simply like a “red eye” on a camera when taking a picture. One of the greatest dangers is when people with albinism have excessive sunlight exposure. Albinism is a very difficult disease to detect only two tests are currently available to identify the two forms of the condition. A blood test can be administered to identify a gene for some forms of albinism. There is no treatment that can replace the lack of melanin that causes the symptoms of albinism (Longe). Dyslexia is a learning disability involving confusion with intelligence and language skills. Dyslexia affects more boys than girls, the ratio being 5 to 1. Dyslexia is a family traceable gene. Teachers are now trained to recognize dyslexia. Many symptoms of dyslexia include lack of hearing sounds, delayed speech, difficulty of spoken words, difficulty of reading words, and many others. Treatment for Dyslexia is very small but many helpful then most other diseases. Usually a specialized education is used as a remedy. Some geneticists believe that five to fifteen percent of people have dyslexia. The exact cause of dyslexia has not been found. There are several differences between sound and visual information without dyslexia. Asthma is a disease that has affected me personally. Asthma has affected people of all ages. The American Lung Association estimates that in 2006, that more than 4 million children in the United States experienced asthma (Kagan). Approximately five to ten children are diagnosed with asthma. The ratio of asthma for boys to girls is 3 to 1. Diseases affect many people daily many of us are lucky not to have the diseases mentioned here. *My teacher said that all my citations are correct, I just simply have grammar mistakes. I am open to all criticism and any tips on making my essay and writing overall better. At last, I was wondering if anyone could help me on my Thesis and Conclusion my thesis needs more detail and I simply just suck at conclusions. Thanks for all the help!

Answer: I found these errors:Look at the words or sentences in parenthesis.In this sentence I find that>form of Anemia is plastic anemia, in which causes an infection with (parovius,)Treatment for Dyslexia is very small (but many helpful then most other diseases.) There should be a comma here Africans ,Mediterraneans.

Question: How do you feel about the concept of "creating saviour siblings" ? i have mixed feelings...as much as i believe that everything should be done to save a child, i can't help wonder about those embryos that were not a match for their brother Conor & were hence not selected. London, August 10 (ANI): Meet Britain's only 'saviour sibling' twins who have been created to be donors for their sick older brother. Amy and Anthony Maguire, both two years old, were born after IVF treatment was used to select embryos which are a match for their brother Connor, so that blood taken from their umbilical cord at birth might one day be used to offer him life-saving treatment. According to reports, Connor was two years old when his parents noticed normal rough and tumble caused him serious bruising.It was found that he was suffering from aplastic anaemia, a condition where the immune system destroys parts of the bone marrow which produce blood cells and affects just three in every one million people.Since the child required repeated doses of powerful drugs to suppress his immune system, he had to stay in isolation in hospital and required large amounts of medication, including blood transfusions. A bone marrow transplant is the only long-term cure for the disease, but despite a worldwide search the family could not find a match for the kid. Finally, Connor's consultant, Dr. Sarah Ball, at St George's Hospital in south west London, suggested that the couple should consider creating a so-called saviour sibling because they were intending to have more children. Despite the fact that the practice of creating saviour siblings has proved controversial, the children's father Laurence Maguire has no doubts that it is justified."Once you see your children, any notion that they are spare parts is gone. We wouldn't change anything, they are our children and we love them all," the Telegraph quoted the 42-year-old as saying. "I never ever think that we didn't have the twins for the right reason," he added. He further said that they did not have the treatment in order to create 'spare parts children'."We always intended to have more children, we both come from large families. It wasn't really a choice at all, because you will do anything for your child," he said. Since the twins were born almost two years ago, Connor's condition has stabilised a little and he has recently stopped his immunosuppression drugs.However, there is always the risk that his condition will deteriorate again.Maguire said: "God forbid that anything happens to Connor but if it does we are in a much better situation than we were before." (ANI) http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090810/959/tod-meet-uk-s-only-saviour-twins-created.html Edit: i reported just one of your Qs & i told i did & i'm pretty certain you deleted it yourself...because you were ashamed of yourself..don't be afraid to admit..

Answer: I can understand why people want it,like IVF,but there are certain things that aren't meant to happen. I'm not religious by the way,I just think that certain aspects of Nature shouldn't be messed with.