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My son is a Thalassaemia Major

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bernard:
Hello All,

I am a father of 5 months old son. I am tested normal, and my wife is a thalassaemia carrier. What I don't understand is why my son confirmed as beta thalassaemia major with Hb 6.6, Hb A2 2% and HbF 98%.
Last week we check the Hb again and its dropped to 5.7.

Thanks

Manal:
Hi Bernard and welcome to the site

What kind of tests did you go through?? There is a chance that you can be a silent carrier and this is only shown in a DNA test?? For your son to be a major he has to have two muted genes one from the mother and the other from the father. Did you test for other blood diorders that you may be a carrier of other than thalassemia??

manal

jade:
Hi Bernard

Welcome

You are most probably a silent carrier if your son is thal major as suggested by Manal.  Welcome to the site again.  Keep in touch, read the different previous posts, get to know how to go about dealing with the different issues which may arise and ask as many questions as you like, we will be here to help you.  You will see that if you keep in touch,  you will gain a lot by pooling into the experiences of the members having gone through the same path before you.  Prepare yourself mentally to deal with this issue.  You have to be strong for your child and from you, he will draw his strength.  Best of luck.

Jade

bernard:
Hi Manal,

If I am not mistaken, the test we had through is called electrophoresis. The doctor also mentioned that our baby spleen and liver become bigger and need to do blood transfusion.

Thanks
Bernard

jade:
Before doing the blood transfusion do not forget to do the genotype and phenotype testing.  It is really important as you will see when you will read previous posts of sharmin.

T

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