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help needed please !!!!
kabir_love:
YES WE DID CVS IT WAS OK AND HB ELECTROPHORESIS IS DONE report attached now please u can advice..
zahra:
Hi,
I'm sorry I cant help but just wanted you to know that our prayers are with your daughter. I hope she is well very , very soon
Zahra
jade:
Hi Kabir_love
I am sorry to hear what you are going through. Hope your little lady gets well soon. This is what I have been able to gather on reading results of electrophoresis (from Nurses learning)
Quote:
Fetal Hb (Hb F), is a normal Hb product in the red blood cells of a fetus and in smaller amounts in infants. It constitutes 50% to 90% of Hb in a newborn; the remaining Hb consists of Hb A1 and Hb A2 the Hb in adults.
Under normal conditions, the body ceases to manufacture fetal Hb sometime during the first year of life, and from that point on manufactures adult Hb. If this changeover does not occur and fetal Hb continues to constitute more than 5% of the Hb after age six months, an abnormality should be suspected, particularly thalassemia.
End quote.
Hope you get answers soon. Take care
JAde
jade:
I also want to add that for thalassemia major, a head scan will show hair-like structure on the skull, if I am not mistaken. Can anyone else confirm this?
The spleen and liver enlargement is quite baffling.
Does she have fever?
Jade
kabir_love:
she is now 2 months old thats y doc. and we have done while my wife was pregent thal. test and its fine we have checked she is atleast not b-thal. major. yes she had fever during this time and after 3 days it was gone.
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