Definition of platelets
Platelets are a part of the blood cells made by the bone marrow in the body, and its main role in the blood circulation lies in blood clotting and embolism to prevent bleeding as a result of the injury of the individual any wounds in the body, where the injury of a particular person, these platelets moved to place Wound, and works to stop bleeding with the help of other factors in the blood.
Platelets are flat forms of cytoplasm that are approximately three nanometers in diameter, have no regular shape, and do not contain a nucleus or so-called “organelles”. Their life expectancy ranges from seven days to ten in normal. The principle of its work is to stick together and correlate as a result of issuing “coagulation” signals. It is the second substance in the blood to be found after the red cells. Their numbers range from one hundred fifty thousand to forty thousand per cubic meter.
Platelet deficiency disease
Platelet deficiency is a side effect of chemotherapy for cancer patients. This treatment causes a decrease in the number of blood platelets in the blood. In addition, the patient’s intake of some drugs is also caused by this. The cancerous tumor itself is one of the reasons. Chemotherapy does not differentiate between tumor cells and healthy, fast-growing cells. It therefore destroys cancer cells and peaceful cells, including these plates, reducing their number and reducing the ability of the blood to produce more of them, and thus the deficiency.
The symptoms of this disease are serious in some cases, the lack of platelets leads to the inability of the body to produce blood clotting blood clots in cases of bleeding, can not stop it even if the wound is simple, the patient is bleeding until he loses a large amount of blood, Critical, and then treatment is the transfer of blood to the patient has a high proportion of platelets that help to stop bleeding.
Other symptoms that we can know about our disease – God forbid – can be seen bruising in the body anywhere for no reason, and we notice the presence of small red granules under the skin, in addition to changing the urine color in the patient to be red or pink , And in the stool notes mixing with blood and that the color is black, and may suffer from bleeding in the gums or nose, and women suffer from increased bleeding during their menstrual cycle, and sometimes from vaginal bleeding in the absence of the menstrual cycle.
As for the treatment of this disease, the specialist doctor describes special medicines for the patient to deal with this shortage, and must stop the drinking of drugs that lead to this deficiency, and may reach the limit in case the treatment did not succeed after the cessation of all the causes of the disease to have the patient to remove the spleen from the body, Which destroys these platelets.