Diseases
There are many diseases that may be exposed to the human being in his life. Some of them are produced by the polluted environment in which they live. Some of them are caused by some of the wrong habits that a person commits during his daily life, such as bad health habits that may affect people with diabetes, And turn to human infection, such as colds and cold, but there are some diseases inherited by the parents of their children, and called genetic diseases, what is meant by genetic diseases?
Genetic diseases: A genetic disease linked to genes that affects humans during their embryonic life. These diseases are caused by a disorder or disorder in one or more genes. These diseases are usually transmitted through generations.
Types of genetic diseases
- Diseases caused by disorder or chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down Syndrome.
- Diseases caused by the occurrence of genetic mutations, and these mutations may work on the damage of genes and failure to function properly. Examples of these diseases are Hantecton disease.
- Diseases caused by parents carrying defective genes and their inheritance to their children, and the child gets these diseases when meeting the genes of the disease in the cells of the baby, and the most common examples of these diseases is Thalassemia, which we will talk about in this article.
Thalassemia
Thalassemia, or so-called Mediterranean anemia, because of its widespread spread in the Mediterranean region, the disease is a defect in the gene causes the human anemia by affecting the hemoglobin in the blood and reduce its function, making it unable To perform its function to the fullest, and this leads to the injury of human hereditary anemia and chronic at an early age, and reaches the disease to the human by inheritance by the parents of Jinan Mnihin carrying the disease.
It is important to note that this disease is very dangerous and makes human life vulnerable, because it affects the blood industry greatly, the patient needs to transfer blood monthly to maintain the levels of natural hemoglobin in the blood, and Thalassemia disease known since ancient times, In 1925, when he noticed that a number of people were infected with severe anemia, bone abnormalities, non-healing and eventual death.
Types of Thalassemia
- Beta thalassemia.
- Alpha thalassemia.
- Delta Thalassemia.
Thalassemia symptoms
Thalassemia patients develop symptoms at an early age, and these symptoms vary from person to person depending on the type and severity of the disease, but the symptoms in general are:
- Persistent feeling of general weakness in the body and fatigue and exhaustion.
- Sensation of shortness of breath.
- Dandruff in the patient’s skin.
- The patient becomes yellowing the skin or so-called jaundice.
- There are abnormalities in the patient’s facial bones.
- Slow growth of the patient.
- The patient has a swelling in the abdomen.
- The urine of the patient’s urine changes so that it becomes dark.